The title of a song is on the tip of Gerard's tongue,but he cannot recall it until someone mentions the songwriter's name. Gerard's initial inability to recall the title was most likely caused by

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Retrieval failure occurs when information is stored in long-term memory but cannot be accessed or retrieved at the time it is needed. In this case, Gerard remembered the songwriter's name but not the title of the song, indicating that the information was encoded and stored in his long-term memory but was temporarily inaccessible to him.

The Title of a Song Is on the Tip of Gerard's