GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Either A or B
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tip of the tongue (also known as lethologica) is the phenomenon of failing to retrieve a word or term from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent.
Detailed explanation-2: -The “tip of the tongue” (TOT) phenomenon is a state in which one cannot quite recall a familiar word but can recall words of similar form and meaning. Several hundred such states were precipitated by reading to Ss the difinitions of English words of low frequency and asking them to try to recall the words.
Detailed explanation-3: -The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon It is a very common example of what memory expert Daniel L. Schacter calls ‘blocking’, one of the seven sins of memory (Schacter, 1999). The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is the experience that the memory is right there and yet for some reason you can’t quite access it.