Rogelio recognizes a theme song from a popular television show, but he is unable to remember the name of the show.He is experiencing
A) memory decay.
B) memory displacement.
C) the tip-of-the-tongue state.
D) encoding failure.

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Rogelio is experiencing the tip-of-the-tongue state, which is a feeling of being able to recall information but being unable to retrieve it from memory. This is different from memory decay, which refers to the weakening or fading of a memory over time, displacement, which occurs when new information interferes with the retrieval of old information, or encoding failure, which is when information is not properly stored in memory in the first place.

Rogelio Recognizes a Theme Song from a Popular Television Show