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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: sci.cognitive
- Subject: Re: Silly Mnemonic Tricks
- Message-ID: <11682@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 15:41:30 GMT
- References: <11379@scott.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov9.143429.7702@psych.toronto.edu> <92Nov11.054007.13743@acs.ucalgary.ca> <1992Nov11.143856.6394@psych.toronto.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov11.143856.6394@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
- <>christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
- <>>
- <>>You know, it always amazed me that people needed a mnemonic for the order
- <>>of colors in the spectrum. Their order always seemed pretty intuitive
- <>>to me (e.g., what comes between red and yellow? orange of course. Would
- <>>anyone think blue?).
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- Quite. (And yellow between orange and green also seems intuitive to me.
- Would anyone put anything else there?)
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- <I was sent e-mail by someone who said the mnemonic is needed because
- <color are psychologically circular (e.g. red-violet-blue) and Roy G Biv
- <reminds you what the endpoints are.
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- If you have heard of infra_red_ and ultra_violet_ rays, as I'm sure
- everybody has, you won't need any sophisticated memorisation aid to
- know that the endpoints can't be green and orange. Or?
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