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A common memory problem for older adults is ________, in which individuals cannot quite retrieve familiar information but have the feeling that they should be able to retrieve it.

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This sounds like Alzheimer’s disease
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The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, is the right answer.

Step-by-step explanation:

A situation in which a person fails to get a specific term or word from memory, linked with incomplete recall and the very sense that retrieval is expected, is known as the Tip of the tongue phenomenon. In such situations, it is generally said that the phenomenon is on "the tip of my tongue" this is how this phenomenon got its name.

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