Author Question: Which of the following statements is correct about the current research on the tip-of-the-tongue ... (Read 78 times)

darbym82 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Which of the following statements is correct about the current research on the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?

a. Monolingual adults and bilingual adults are equally likely to report this phenomenon.
b. People are fairly accurate in guessing the number of syllables in the target word, but they are less accurate in guessing the target word's first letter.
c. The phenomenon seems to be limited to the English language.
d. Research in languages that have grammatical gender shows that people can typically identify the gender of the target word.

Question 2

Researchers have conducted many studies about how students allocate their time, when studying for an exam. In general, these studies show that:

a. without time pressure, students spend more time studying difficult material.
b. without time pressure, students spend more time studying easy material.
c. with time pressure, students spend more time studying difficult material.
d. with time pressure, students tend to study randomly, without using strategies about which items to focus on.