rote memory

We can certainly shut our brains off and play the piano from rote memory after enough practice.

The article elaborated the geography teaching to abandon the mechanical memorizing-like rote memory and to instill into the way, obtained from the stimulation interest and the develop capacity.

Rote memorization involves pounding information into your brain by repeating it continually. Works best when the information is arbitrary and fact-based, so applications won't go beyond simple memory.