How Is the Tip-Of-The-Tongue Experience Relevant to Metacognition

question 49

Multiple Choice

How is the tip-of-the-tongue experience relevant to metacognition?

• A) People can provide accurate introspections about the way their semantic memory is organized.
• B) People are more accurate in supplying a similar-sounding word than a similar-meaning word.
• C) When people report a tip-of-the-tongue state, they accurately assess that they are close to identifying the missing word.
• D) People can accurately describe the process by which they recover a word that was previously on the tip of their tongue.

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Definitions:

Sales Discounts

A reduction in the price of goods or services offered by a seller to a buyer, usually to encourage prompt payment.

Accounts Receivable

The amount of money owed to a company by its customers for goods or services that have been delivered but not yet paid for.

Contra-revenue Account

is an account that is deducted from gross revenues to arrive at net revenue, examples include sales returns, allowances, and discounts.

Sales Returns

Transactions where customers return previously purchased merchandise, leading to a debit to the sales returns account and a credit to accounts receivable or cash.