What's the difference between memorize and mnemonic?

Memorize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to be remembered ; hence, to record.
  • (v. t.) To commit to memory; to learn by heart.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If I could get a shot, I was going to shoot it,” said Arcidiacono, who finished with 16 points and two assists, one more memorable than the other.
  • (2) We had some memorable encounters and he was very rude to me.
  • (3) Our goal was to encourage analysis and synthesis rather than memorization; evaluating such higher taxonomic levels of education is extraordinarily difficult.
  • (4) But among the football-faith community the legendary Anfield Road stadium is not considered a sacred site for nothing, and on this memorable night everyone felt what mighty magic can be summoned here.” Describing the match as “a classic in the illustrious history of these two clubs for years to come”, the commentator Daniel Theweleit also believed that the atmosphere at Anfield put Dortmund’s own famed fan culture into the shade: “Even those who have watched the club for centuries agreed that Dortmund has never achieved this kind of intensity.” Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung found satisfaction in seeing the German coach Jürgen Klopp exporting his magic touch across the Channel.
  • (5) "The memorable 1961 British Home Championship yielded an astonishing 40 goals from six matches," writes Erik Kennedy.
  • (6) Each subject sat for 6 minutes in a darkened room and was told to memorize a list of words she heard form a tape.
  • (7) Subjects were presented with a list of 25 words and performed one of the following tasks: semantic, nonsemantic, or passive listening, presented in an incidental memory paradigm, or intentional memorization.
  • (8) As a central feature of every ceremony, Nepali shamans (jhãkris) publicly recite lengthy oral texts, whose meticulous memorization constitutes the core of shamanic training.
  • (9) His last collection, entitled Plato's Atlantis, is one of his most memorable and became a must-have for celebrities looking for paparazzi attention.
  • (10) Genetic information as memorizing accidental choice always arises as a result of the environment interaction, when memorizing realization in the form of repeated reproduction occurs on the basis of processes radically different from those which created initial genetic chance.
  • (11) When a user inserts an identification card into the card reader, the computer memorizes assigned gate number, the user's number and the time; it processes those data and prints out a document.
  • (12) This section was memorably captured by the computer and security expert Caspar Bowden , who wrote: "Interpreting that section requires the unravelling of a triple-nested inversion of meanings across six cross-referenced subsections, linked to a dozen other cross-linked definitions, which are all dependent on a highly ambiguous 'notwithstanding'."
  • (13) His annoyance was memorably captured by a BBC film crew for a documentary.
  • (14) She has written books on how to be a success and hosts Dom-2 , the longest-running reality show in the world, which has been memorably described as the worst thing to hit Russian culture since the Mongols.
  • (15) Ms Williams's name will already be familiar to many gay rights campaigners courtesy of a memorable speech on same-sex relationships, in which she applauded Jamaica's criminalisation of what her sect considers a curable aberration, a diagnosis she did not hesitate to apply to Tom Daly.
  • (16) An embryological hypothesis is presented to explain and memorize all the artrial variations of this area.
  • (17) In the last few weeks, Miami has had to rely on comebacks, most memorably when they dug themselves out a 27-point hole against the Cleveland Cavaliers .
  • (18) It was the first time I had been underground in Staffordshire since I was a coal miner in the 1980s but the visit was memorable for another reason.
  • (19) Newsnight's audience bounced back in July 2011 with its coverage of the phone-hacking affair, and its memorable on-screen debate featuring Steve Coogan and former News of the World journalist Paul McMullan.
  • (20) It tries to introduce students to 'voluntary and active as against passive learning ... and problem-solving rather than imposed memorizing' of medicalized forms of psychiatry, an innovation compared with the previous conventional method.

Mnemonic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Mnemonical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The selected students had normal intellectual capacity but often showed inadequate progress in school, attentive-mnemonic deficiencies, and psychopathological elements of a depressive nature.
  • (2) Although those receiving active pretraining plus mnemonics did not differ from one another at Time 3, they recalled more than those with no active pretraining.
  • (3) This more recent system has developed embedded wlithin the posteriorly located analytic and mnemonic cortical tissues and provides for communications between individuals within the species at symbolic, verbal levels.
  • (4) No consistent hemispheric specialization nor difference in direction of interhemispheric communication was observed despite the use of different types of material and the different mnemonic tasks.
  • (5) It is suggested that natural analogs of pyrimidine, whose precursor is orotic acid, are universal endogenous regulators of mnemonic and antianxiety functions.
  • (6) The young group showed significantly higher recall and recognition (both immediate and delayed) for the digit-symbol pairs and were more likely to report the use of mnemonic techniques in learning the pairs.
  • (7) Thus, theta-rhythm may play a modulating role in the induction of LTP, suggesting a possible mnemonic function for the rhythm during the behaviors in which it occurs.
  • (8) A combination of drugs dilating the heart vessels with drugs improving metabolism and the brain blood flow resulted in an improvement of mnemonic function.
  • (9) Women must be taught the serious adverse effects to watch for: a mnemonic "ACHES" is suggested.
  • (10) The effect of intravenous atropine (1 mg) or saline on mnemonic function was tested in patients with various forms of dementia and age-matched controls.
  • (11) These results indicate that animals showing a definitive sign of tolerance to OP administration (subsensitivity to a cholinergic agonist) were also functionally impaired on both the mnemonic and motoric demands of a working memory task.
  • (12) In essence, it is argued that the human amygdala is responsible for activating or reactivating those mnemonic events which are of an emotional significance for the subjects' life history and that this (re-)activation is performed by charging sensory information with appropriate emotional cues.
  • (13) Sixty-two normal elderly subjects averaging 71 years old were taught a common mnemonic device for recall of lists using a Computer-Aided Instruction (CAI) package.
  • (14) In summary, these results indicate that primate prefrontal cortex participates in visual information processing and may code several aspects of visual stimuli including behavioral significance and mnemonic representations.
  • (15) These results suggest that frequency-specific RF plasticity in the MGv may be a substrate of short-term mnemonic processes that could participate in long-term storage of information and modification of the representation of the CS at the auditory cortex.
  • (16) This finding identifies a neurochemical change associated with classical conditioning which is similar to the increase in transmitter release seen in hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP), and which is consistent with the hypothesis that an LTP-like mechanism is involved in mnemonic processes.
  • (17) Activation by vaginocervical stimulation of the "mnemonic" neurogenic system that controls the autonomous nocturnal prolactin surges did not interfere with the reflexive pup-induced release of prolactin in maternally behaving virgins.
  • (18) The deteriorating effect of amphetamine on mnemonic processes and its facilitatory effect on behaviors directed to get more than the usual amount of pleasant tactile stimulation might underlie the behavioral changes described in this study.
  • (19) The study of this effect in the case of poly(dA).oligo(dT) replication led us to propose a mnemonic model for Pol I, in which the 3' to 5' excision activity warms up when the enzyme is actively polymerizing, and cools down when it dissociates from the template.
  • (20) Although mnemonic interpretations of hippocampal function in people have been readily accepted for many years, similar interpretations of hippocampal function in animals have received a number of challenges.