Does rote memory or associative memory receive the emphasis?

They had assumed machine mode, their panic suppressed, every action guided by rote memory and training.

The one student does his studying by the rote memory method, the other by the road of reasoning.

One can have a good rote memory without understanding, one cannot have a good logical memory without understanding.

Take rote memory for example.

A pattern of good rote memory, reading skills, and concrete language contrasted with poor visual spatial skills, mathematics, and abstract problem solving.

One may have a good rote memory and a poor logical memory, or a poor rote memory and a good logical memory.

Prepare a set of maxims designed to help a student change from the " rote memory" method of study to the "reason-why" (or "problem") method.

Rote memory is rather simple; it cannot be much affected by training.

Rote memory abilities can be found representing every step between these two extremes.

Rote memory is probably at its best in the pre-adolescent and early adolescent years.

Rote memory depends on a special memory for words, aided by serial connections and often rhythm.

Rote memory is, of course, necessary if an individual is to make a success as an actor, a singer, or a musician.