Some of the Participants in the Brown and McNeil TOT

Multiple Choice

Some of the participants in the Brown and McNeil TOT experiments proved to be very good at estimating the number of syllables in words they could not recall. The students often correctly guessed the initial sounds of the words. This finding seems to reflect

A) incomplete or imperfect learning.
B) an absence of visual retrieval cues.
C) skill memory rather than semantic memory.
D) STM displacement by anxiety-evoking information.