Discussion
The feeling of being aware of knowing something and being confident that will be remembered, but unable to retrieve the information at that point in time. This phenomenon is called ........
Answer: C
The phenomenon is the tip-of-the-tongue state.
A person is sure he knows a word or name and that it will come back, and may even recall its first letter or number of syllables, but cannot retrieve it at that moment. Brown and McNeill (1966) studied it by reading out definitions of rare words, and it shows that information can be stored but temporarily inaccessible.
Suppression is deliberately pushing a thought out of mind, and repression, in psychoanalytic theory, is unconsciously keeping threatening material out of awareness; neither involves the confident feeling of knowing. Interference is forgetting caused by other learning, a broader account of forgetting rather than this specific experience.
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