In a classic "tip­of­the­tongue" experiment, students, who drew a blank and couldn't name a defined word, were

a. able to name the word after they were instructed to shut their eyes.
b. able to guess the first and last letter and the number of syllables of the word they were seeking.
c. exhibiting encoding failure.
d. exhibiting the serial position effect.


ANSWER: b

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