When the sound of the word is the aspect that cannot be retrieved, leaving only the feeling of knowing the word without the ability to pronounce it, this is known as _________.
A) encoding failure
B) extinction of acoustic storage
C) auditory decay
D) the tip-of-the-tongue effect

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The tip-of-the-tongue effect refers to the situation when we know a word but cannot produce it or retrieve it from memory. This phenomenon occurs when the memory retrieval process fails to access the phonological information associated with a word, even though its semantic information is available. It's often described as having the sensation of knowing the word, but being just out of reach or on the "tip of the tongue."

When the Sound of the Word Is the Aspect That