Meaning is not enough if it is left unarranged — hierarchy gives spreading activation something to travel along.
Bower’s 1969 result: hierarchically organised words dramatically outperform the same words randomised. Draw the skeleton before taking notes into it, rather than producing a flat dump that follows the lecture’s order.
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supports →Working memory holds about four chunks, not four items — expertise enlarges what fits in a slot rather than adding slots.Structure is how items become chunks. Grouping by function or cause is the operation that compresses a list into a unit small enough to hold.