You Start to Answer an Exam Question and Even Though

question 51

Multiple Choice

You start to answer an exam question and even though you know the word for the answer, you cannot remember it. You can remember the shape of the word, the first letter, where on the page of your notes the word is, but not the word itself. You are suffering from:

• A) change blindness
• B) tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
• C) suggestibility
• D) absentmindedness

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Definitions:

Intelligence Quotient

A measure of an individual's cognitive abilities in comparison to the population, usually determined by an IQ test.

Chronological Age

The actual age of an individual measured in years from their date of birth to the current date.

Flynn Effect

The rise in average IQ scores that has occurred over the decades in many nations.

IQ Scores

Numerical measures of intelligence relative to one's age group, derived from standardized tests.