You are trying to tell a friend the name of the hotel you stayed at last year during spring break, but you can't seem to recall its name. You know it begins with an S. This is an example of
A) recapitulation.
B) familiar information being remembered more poorly.
C) a tip-of-the-tongue experience.
D) compensatory failure.

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The situation described is a classic example of a tip-of-the-tongue experience, where a person is unable to retrieve a piece of information that they know they know. The fact that the person remembers that the hotel's name starts with an S but cannot recall the full name is indicative of a partial retrieval failure.

You Are Trying to Tell a Friend the Name of the Hotel