Greg is on the trivia team for his fraternity
When the final deciding question was asked during a competition, Greg was sure he knew the answer since he had answered a similar question during practice, but he just couldn't retrieve the information in time to "buzz in." The other team did "buzz in" with the correct answer and won this match.
Greg later said that he felt like the answer was on the "tip of his tongue," but it would just not come to mind. He
had experienced a memory that was
a. available but not accessible.
b. temporary rather than permanent.
c. short-term but not long-term.
d. procedural rather than semantic.
ANSWER: a
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