Rote vs Gestalt - What's the difference?
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The process of learning or committing something to memory through mechanical repetition, usually by hearing and repeating aloud, often without full attention to comprehension or thought for the meaning.
* 2009 ,
Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
(obsolete) To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
To learn or repeat by rote.
(rare) The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.
A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
* Sir Walter Scott
A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts, due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being)
:* This biography is the first one to consider fully the writer's gestalt .
:* The clusters of behavioral gestalten'''... the probability factors... the subtypes of crimes... the constellations of criminal subtypes...'' — Jay Kirk, "Watching the Detectives", Harpers Magazine, Vol. 307, Iss. 1839; pg. 61, Aug, ' 2003
shape, form
:* Mary did not approve of the Eleanor gestalt'''. "I been to Woonsocket S.D., Eleanor McGovern's hometown," she said, "and nobody there? I mean nobody? dresses like that."'' — John L Hess and Karen Hess, "The Taste of America", Grossman, New York, ' 1977
:* ... depending on the kinds of speech children hear directed to them, they may first learn unanalyzed "gestalts'''" (e.g., social expressions like "What's that?" uttered as a single unit) instead of learning single words that are then freely recombined ...''— Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, "The Origins of Grammar", The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, ' 1996
:* So different were our appearances and approaches and general gestalts''' that we had something of an epic rivalry from '74 through '77.'' — David Foster Wallace, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", Boston: Little, Brown and Co., Edition: 1st Back Bay ed., ' 1998
As nouns the difference between rote and gestalt
is that rote is the process of learning or committing something to memory through mechanical repetition, usually by hearing and repeating aloud, often without full attention to comprehension or thought for the meaning while gestalt is a collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts, due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being.As an adjective rote
is by repetition or practice.As a verb rote
is to go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.rote
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), origin uncertain. Likely from the phrase (see (rotary)), but the calls both suggestions groundless.Noun
(-)- They didn’t have copies of the music for everyone, so most of us had to learn the song by rote .
Jim Holt], ''[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/books/review/Holt-t.html?_r=2&8bu&emc=bub1 Got Poetry?
- But memorize them we did, in big painful chunks, by rote repetition.
- The pastoral scenes from those commercials don’t bear too much resemblance to the rote of daily life on a farm.
Usage notes
* Commonly found in the phrase "by rote" and in attributive use: "rote learning", "rote memorization", and so on. * Often used pejoratively in comparison with "deeper" learning that leads to "understanding".Derived terms
* rotelike * rotelySee also
* muscle memoryVerb
(rot)- (Zane Grey)
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
c. 1600, from (etyl) .Noun
(-)Etymology 3
(etyl) rote, probably of German origin; compare Middle High German (rotte), and English .Noun
(en noun)- extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes