Search and Destroy

I learned this term from Suzuki Teacher Trainer Tanya Carey, and loved it from the moment I heard it. I have used this term MANY, MANY times. It applies to the method of trying to find a note by ear,  with absolutely know thought of:

1. What the note ACTUALLY is;
2. Where the note ACTUALLY lives on the fingerboard

It goes on so long that the student actually loses all reference for the key of the piece and any reference of tonality and has absolutely no hope of finding the note. Typically, the more it goes on, the worse it gets. I have never really heard a student come out of experience “search and FIND” from this method, yet it remains the number one “go to” attempt to find a note.