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 is something like taxes. 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
e. anterograde amnesia
c. the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
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