Mickey is about to take his psychology final.Just before the exam,the person sitting next to Mickey asks him the name of the physiologist who worked on classical conditioning.Mickey suddenly realizes that he cannot quite remember the name,but he knows that it starts with a P and is two syllables long.Mickey is experiencing:
A) repression.
B) simple decay.
C) retrograde amnesia.
D) the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.

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Mickey is experiencing the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, which is the feeling of knowing information that cannot be recalled at the moment. This often happens with specific details such as names, dates or definitions where the concept is known but the specific details don't come to mind.

Mickey Is About to Take His Psychology Final