Which of the following phenomena supports the idea that forgetting is a problem of accessibility, not availability?
A)hypermnesia
B)context effects in recognition and recall
C)tip of the tongue
D)all of the above

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All of the given phenomena (hypermnesia, context effects in recognition and recall, and tip of the tongue) suggest that forgetting is more of an issue of accessibility rather than availability. Hypermnesia is the opposite of forgetting, where memory actually improves over time; context effects show that memory retrieval can be influenced by the environment or context in which it was encoded; and tip of the tongue refers to the feeling of knowing that information is stored in long-term memory but being unable to retrieve it at a given moment. All of these phenomena imply that the information is still stored in long-term memory, but it is temporarily inaccessible.

Which of the Following Phenomena Supports the Idea That Forgetting