You and your husband go to the movies. About 20 minutes into the movie,

he asks you who that actress is that just came on the screen and if she is on some television show you watch. You know that you know her name but you just cannot recall it. This illustrates
a. the savings score.
b. suppression state.
c. encoding failure.
d. the tip-of-the tongue state.


ANSWER: d

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