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Direct linkCleary, Anne M.; Claxton, Alexander B. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
This study shows that the presence of a tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) state--the sense that a word is in memory when its retrieval fails--is used as a heuristic for inferring that an inaccessible word has characteristics that are consistent with greater word perceptibility. When reporting a TOT state, people judged an unretrieved word as more likely to…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Heuristics, Metacognition, Memory
