Question

Janette was absolutely certain that she knew the name of the fundamentalist religious group that was involved in the standoff with the fbi in waco, texas, but she could not think of the name of the group. this is an example of:

Answer 1

This is an example of a tip-of-the-tongue experience.

The tip-of-the-tongue experience (TOT) is described by having the capacity to recover a considerable amount of data about the objective word without having the capacity to recover the word itself. You know the importance of the word. You may know what number of syllables the word has, or its underlying sound or letter.