Noah is asked to recall the name of his 9th grade English teacher. He feels confident that he knows this information but becomes frustrated when he can only recall that her name began with a "W." Noah's inability to recall her full name is most likely the result of
A. never encoding the information.
B. the information never passing from his sensory to long-term memory.
C. his inability to access his nondeclarative memory.
D. the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) phenomenon.
Answer: D
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