While Taking Her Psychology Exam, Edith Is Certain That She

Multiple Choice

While taking her psychology exam, Edith is certain that she knows who developed the forgetting curve. She remembers studying it, and she can get a vague picture of where the material is in her textbook. Edith's certainty that she knows something, but inability to recall it is called

A) dissociative amnesia.
B) proactive interference.
C) retroactive interference.
D) the serial position effect.
E) the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.