Janie Is Taking an Exam in Her History Class

Multiple Choice

Janie is taking an exam in her history class. On the exam there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War (whatever that was!) . Janie remembers four of them. She knows there is a fifth and can almost remember it; she knows that it is something like Texas. Janie is walking down the stairs, when all of a sudden, she remembers that the fifth point is taxes, but it is too late. Janie was suffering from ______________.

A) encoding problems
B) storage inversion
C) tip-of-the-tongue effects
D) evaluation overload