You are asked to recall the word that means "a woman who houses and manages prostitutes." You are confident that you know what the term is,and you feel as though you are about to remember it,but it just will not pop out of your memory.You are experiencing:
A)repression
B)the partial recall phenomenon.
C)the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.
D)the exhaustive memory search process.

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The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon refers to the experience of knowing that we know something, but it is just out of our reach. In this case, the individual knows the concept they are trying to recall but is struggling to retrieve the specific term for it.

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