Janie Is Taking an Exam in Her History Class

question 142

Multiple Choice

Janie is taking an exam in her history class. On the exam there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War. Janie remembers four of them. She knows there is a fifth and can almost remember it; she knows that it is something like taxes. Janie is walking down the stairs, when all of a sudden, she remembers that the fifth point is taxes, but it is too late. Janie was suffering from

• A) encoding problems
• B) storage inversion
• C) the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
• D) evaluation overload
• E) anterograde amnesia

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Definitions:

Auditory Sensation

The perceptual experience of sound, which occurs when sound waves are converted into electrical signals processed by the brain.

Sensory Registers

The initial processing systems that store sensory information for very short periods of time, allowing it to be perceived.

Temporal Lobe

A region of the brain responsible for processing auditory information and encoding memory.

Sensory Registers

A short-term storage system for sensory information, where such information is held briefly before it's either discarded or processed further.