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How Keen Is Your Observation? 17
"Thirty days hath September, April, June and November,
all the rest have thirty-one, etc.," but how many times have
you relied on it when it was necessary to know the number
of days in a particular month?
If you were ever taught to remember the nonsense word,
"vibgyor," or the nonsense name, "Roy B. Giv," then you
still remember the colors of the spectrum: Red, Orange,
Yellow, Blue, Green, Indigo and Violet. This again is the
association and initial system.
I am sure that many times you have seen or heard some-
thing which made you snap your fingers, and say, "Oh, that
reminds me. . . ." You were made to remember something
by the thing you saw or heard, which usually had no ob-
vious connection to the thing you remembered. However,
in your mind, the two things were associated in some way.
This was a subconscious association. Right now, I am point-
ing out a few examples of conscious associations at work;
and they certainly do work. People who have forgotten
many things that they learned in their early grades, still
remember the spaces and lines of the treble clef. If yon
have read this chapter so far, concentrating as you read,
you should know them by now, even if you've never studied
music.
One of the best examples I know, is the one which was
a great help to me in my early grade spelling classes. We
were being taught that the word, "believe" was spelled with
the e following the i. In order to help us to commit this to
memory, we were told to remember a short sentence,
"Never believe a lie."
This is a perfect instance of a conscious association. I
know for a fact that many adults still have trouble spelling,
"believe." They are never quite sure if the i is first, or if it
is the e. The spelling of the word, "believe" was the new
thing to remember. The word, "lie" is a word we all already