Essentials of Understanding Psychology
Essentials of Understanding Psychology
13th Edition
ISBN: 9781260194500
Author: FELDMAN, Robert
Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL HIGHER EDUCATION
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Chapter 19, Problem 1E
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To determine: The term for the occurrence in the given case.

Introduction: Memory refers to the information that is processed, encoded, stored, and retrieved by the brain when required. It is classified as short-term and long-term memory. The information is encoded and processed into short-term memory also referred as working memory. Then information transfers to long-term memory for retrieving later.

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In the given case, Person E was with a group of friends at a dance and bumps into a man that she dated last month. But she cannot remember the guy’s name when she tries to introduce him to her friends. This type of common occurrence is called as tip-of-the-phenomenon.

Tip-of-the-phenomenon is a common occurrence that represents the difficulties to retrieve information stored in long-term memory. Names and other memories cannot be recalled every time because of so much of information stored in long-term memory. This condition is a temporary inability to remember information that can be recalled successfully through retrieval cues.

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