Unfortunate Anecdotes of My Life

This will be short and sweet.

Today I had a final test for my ballet course at school. The question was name two famous ballet dancers or choreographers. I know at least two but was having a really difficult time coming up with the names, they were on the tip of my tongue but just would not make an appearance on the page! I knew the ballerina's name started with a P and was some sort of Russian or Czech sounding name. So I started saying a bunch of names I knew starting with P...Palestrina, Peder, Pavlov...

The first is a composer, the second a cousin of one of my friends, the third a behavioral psychologist who conditioned dogs using certain stimuli. I kind of made something up and handed in my test. Later I googled famous ballerinas to find out what the name was. Sadly, as you may have guessed by now it was Pavlova. Wouldn't you have thought that thinking 'Pavlov' would have rung the bell for memory? Ironically Pavlov was the psychologist who conditioned animals to salivate at the sound of a bell or via other stimuli, the sound would trigger a memory or sensation and the correct response of drooling was brought forth. This trigger failed me to remember that the name I was searching for was this psychologist's name plus an 'a' on the end. FAIL.

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