While taking her psychology exam, Edith is certain that she knows who developed the forgetting curve. She remembers studying it, and she can get a vague picture of where the material is in her textbook. Edith's certainty that she knows something, but inability to recall it is called
A)dissociative amnesia.
B)proactive interference.
C)retroactive interference.
D)the serial position effect.
E)the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.

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The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon describes the situation where a person is confident that they know something (such as a word, name, or fact) but is temporarily unable to recall it. This is exactly what Edith is experiencing.

While Taking Her Psychology Exam, Edith Is Certain That She