Which of the following is true of the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) phenomenon?
A. A person who has used a word many times before fails to recall and use it in a sentence due to age-related loss of word fluency.
B. A person replaces a word with another word that has the same number of syllables but a different meaning.
C. A person knows he or she knows a word, and can often even specify how many syllables it contains, but cannot access the word.
D. A person fails to match a stimulus word with another word from a list of synonyms provided.
Answer: C
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