rote memory
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But that’s more rote memory than nostalgia, and Batcho arrived at a broader understanding of nostalgia as an important human “adaptive function.”
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2021
As schoolchildren, we learned prayers by rote memory when we didn’t even understand all the words.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2019
His rote memory was astonishing; he could recite the 25 questions and answers of the Presbyterian catechism before his second birthday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2016
"It is a psychological fact," says Harvard's Gordon Allport, "that seven is the normal limit of rote memory."
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, in an unsteady voice, he began naming aircraft, not thinking of the individual planes, just letting rote memory do its work, these forgotten phantom aircraft winging out of his brain on their own accord.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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