Janie is taking an exam in her history class. On the exam, there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War. Janie remembers four of them. She knows there is a fifth and can almost remember it; she knows that it starts with a "T." Janie is walking down the stairs, when all of a sudden, she remembers that the fifth point is taxes, but it is too late. Janie was suffering from ________.
A) encoding problems
B) storage inversion
C) the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
D) evaluation overload

Question

Janie is taking an exam in her history class. On the exam, there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War. Janie remembers four of them. She knows there is a fifth and can almost remember it; she knows that it starts with a "T." Janie is walking down the stairs, when all of a sudden, she remembers that the fifth point is taxes, but it is too late. Janie was suffering from ________.
A) encoding problems 
B) storage inversion
C) the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon 
D) evaluation overload

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Janie's experience is a classic example of the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, which occurs when a person has trouble retrieving a known piece of information even though they feel like they are on the brink of remembering it.

Janie Is Taking an Exam in Her History Class