Human Growth and Development / Unit 15 HGD 2132 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Tip of the Tongue
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The idea
Older adults experience more tip-of-the-tongue events, retrieval blocks for words they know, even though their semantic memory remains intact.
In practice
A seventy-year-old sure she knows an actor's name, recalling it an hour later.
Where people slip
The problem is retrieval, not loss: the knowledge is there but harder to reach on demand.
Your place on the trail
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