assimilation vs pelmanism

assimilation

noun
  • The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure. 

  • The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue. 

  • The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated. 

  • A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs. 

  • The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture. 

pelmanism

noun
  • A system of training to improve the memory. 

  • A memory card game in which a pack of cards is spread out face-down and players try to turn up pairs with the same symbol. 

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