Repeating information refers to the act of saying or writing something over and over again without necessarily understanding its meaning or relevance.
Related terms
Rote Memorization: Rote memorization is the process of learning through repetition without understanding the underlying concepts. It's like blindly following a set of instructions without knowing why or how they work.
Shallow processing involves focusing only on superficial features of information without considering its meaning. It's like skimming through a book by looking at pictures and headings but not reading the actual content.
The serial position effect is the tendency to remember items at the beginning (primacy effect) and end (recency effect) of a list better than those in the middle. When simply repeating information, we often miss out on encoding its meaning, leading to weaker memory retention.