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 (whatever that was!). Janie remembers four of them. She knows there is a fifth and can almost remember it; she knows that it is something like Texas. 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) tip-of-the-tongue effects
D) evaluation overload

Question

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Janie is experiencing tip-of-the-tongue effects, as she knows the information is stored in her memory, but can't retrieve it at the moment. Encoding problems refer to difficulties in getting information into memory, storage inversion refers to errors in the order or placement of stored information, and evaluation overload is not a recognized term in psychology.

Janie Is Taking an Exam in Her History Class