Mickey is about to take his psychology final, for which he has studied very hard. Just before the exam, the person sitting next to Mickey asks him the name of the physiologist who worked on classical conditioning. Mickey suddenly realizes that he cannot quite remember the name, but he knows that it starts with a P and is two syllables long. Mickey is experiencing?

a. hyperthymestic syndrome.

b. memory decay.

c. retrograde amnesia.

d. the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.

d. the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.

Explanation:

Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon: The term tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is also referred to as TOT, and is described as the process of a person to fail in retrieving a specific term or word from the memory, along with the partial recall and feeling of retrieval being imminent.

In other words, the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is a person's subjective feeling of being confident enough to know a particular piece of information instead of not able to recall the word correctly. Hence the person can recall a similar word from the memory yet not the exact word or information.

In the question above, Mickey is experiencing the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.