I remember my control surfaces by thinking about it logically. If you want to bank right you want the left aileron to go down and produce more lift. You want the right wing to go up and produce less lift therefore dropping the right wing and rising the left which results in a right bank. With the elevator if you want to go up, you want the back of the plane to go down so the elevator must loose lift and the elevator control surface must go up. I could never remember which way things went by memorizing. I hope this confusion makes sense.