Almost everybody has had the feeling of knowing the answer to a question, but not being quite able to say it. This is called the "tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon, and is a failure of:
A)encoding.
B)retrieval.
C)storage.
D)rehearsal.

Question

Almost everybody has had the feeling of knowing the answer to a question, but not being quite able to say it. This is called the "tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon, and is a failure of: 
A)encoding.
B)retrieval.
C)storage.
D)rehearsal.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is when we know that we know a piece of information, but we are temporarily unable to retrieve it from memory. It is a failure of retrieval, not encoding, storage, or rehearsal.

Almost Everybody Has Had the Feeling of Knowing the Answer