Listening, Note Taking, and Memory Taking in, Recording, and Retaining Information Chapter 6

Listening, Note Taking, and Memory

Taking in, Recording, and Retaining Information

Chapter 6

Carter, Bishop, and Kravits Copyright 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.Keys to Success in College, Career, and Life All rights reserved.How to Achieve Your Goals, Fourth Edition

How can you become a better listener?

Know the stages of listening– Sensation– Interpretation– Evaluation– Reaction

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How can you become a better listener?

Manage listening challenges– Divided attention and distractions– Shutting out the message– The rush to judgment– Partial hearing loss and learning disabilities

Become an active listener– Set purposes for listening– Pay attention to verbal signposts– Ask questions

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How can you make the most of note taking?

Recording information in class– Preparing to take class notes

Preview your reading material Gather your supplies Location, location, location Choose a note-taking system Gather support

– What to do during class

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How can you make the most of note taking?

Reviewing and revising your notes– Plan a review schedule

Review within a day of the lecture Review regularly Review with an eye toward tests

– Read and rework using critical thinking– Revise using other sources– Summarize– Work with study groups

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How can you write faster when taking notes?

Personal Shorthand– Use standard abbreviations in place of complete

words– Shorten words by removing vowels from the middle

of words– Substitute word beginnings for entire words– Form plurals by adding s– Make up your own symbols and use them

consistently– Use key phrases instead of complete sentences

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How does memory work?

Encoding stage– Information is changed

into usable form

Storage stage– Information is held in

memory for later use

Retrieval stage– Memories are recovered

from storage by recall

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How can you improve your memory?

Use specific strategies– Have purpose and intention– Understand what you memorize– Recite, rehearse, and write– Study during short but frequent sessions– Separate material into manageable sections– Use a tape recorder selectively

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How can you improve your memory?

Use visual aids Use critical thinking Use mnemonic devices

– Create visual images and associations

– Use an idea chain to remember items in a list

– Create acronyms

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