Rehearsing something without any attempt to make connections or find meaning (i.e. trying to remember a phone number by repeating it over and over again).

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- maintenance rehearsal
- elaborative rehearsal

Types of rehearsal

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Maintenance rehearsal

Rehearsing something with some sort of meaning in mind (i.e. trying to remember a phone number by realizing that the last four digits are the year you were born and the first three are your cousins area code).

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