In a Classic "Tip-Of-The-Tongue" Experiment, Students, Who Drew a Blank

question 215

Multiple Choice

In a classic "tip-of-the-tongue" 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.