memorize
Repetition and memorization is a less effective strategy than more engaging methods.
They're tests of real learning and not just rote memorization.
Traditional schooling relies on memorization, stifling a natural desire to learn.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Remembering, reminding and reminders
aide-mémoire
annal
awaken someone to something
be engraved on someone's memory/mindidiom
be etched on/in someone's memoryidiom
commit
echo
if my memory serves me rightidiom
imprint
in commemoration of someone/something
indelible
jog someone's memoryidiom
recall
remind someone of something/someone
reminder
reminisce
reminiscence
reminiscent
shade
stamp

Examples of memorization

memorization
This interaction allows subject to generate his own text version which is appropriate to his abilities of comprehension and memorization.
All rely on the user's memorization of the codes, which must be extensive to provide much compression advantage.
Lists of spelling words for memorization are not used nor are spelling or phonics workbooks.
Consequently, a skilled reader needs some strategy besides either rote memorization or guessing to ensure that these crucial less frequent words are recognized correctly.
Furthermore, the learning effect of memorization is greater for correctly inferred words than for incorrectly inferred ones.
Further, the benefit of learning a language in context, such as through immersion, suggests that in comparison, rote memorization is not an effective language-learning tool.
Learning regards the memorization of successful and failed methods and of what impasses have occurred.
Part of the purpose of learning these modifications is mnemonic reinforcement of accurate memorization.
Thus, larger units are phonologically easier to process but may be orthographically harder to process, as they require the memorization of bigger letter clusters.
The enhancement technique, coupled with attention to meaning, therefore leads to more generalizable, non-item-specific learning than the memorization encouraged in the implicit condition.
These similarities reflect the arbitrary nature of the labels and the rote memorization that is required to learn them.
It applies to general strategies like problem solving by analogy, perceptual strategies, memorization strategies, and the like.
Purpose: to increase the likelihood that learning takes place, that is, better memorization and assimilation of the information as a cognitive scheme.
He implies that such work employed the instrumentality of musical notation, but does not rule out that memorization by rote may have sufficed.
These data suggest that none of the diagnostic groups relied on memorization of individual exemplars when learning new categories.
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