We have all had the experience of the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. We are asked to remember someones name. We are certain that we know the name and feel as if we are just about to remember it, yet it remains elusive. What type of forgetting might be at work here?

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We have all had the experience of the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. We are asked to remember someone’s name. We are certain that we know the name and feel as if we are just about to remember it, yet it remains elusive. What type of forgetting might be at work here?

A	encoding failure
B	retroactive interference
C	retrieval failure
D	motivated forgetting

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Learned skills are not forgotten easily as they are stored in our implicit memory, and we use these memories whenever we need them in our day-to-day life. Implicit memory includes procedural memory, which carries out basic tasks such as driving a car or playing a video game.

Detailed explanation-2: -Elizabeth Loftus, a distinguished professor at the University of California Irvine. Dr. Loftus is well known for her research on human memory, notably false memories.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

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