Question

According to research on the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon,

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: d. you can typically provide a similar-sounding word, which matches the target word reasonably closely.

tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon refers to the occurrence when a person failed to retrieve a certain word from his/her memory even though the  feeling that retrieval is imminent. When this happen, that person could typically provide a similar-sounding word but somehow still couldn't retrieve the word that he/she intended to retrieve.

Answer 2

I think that the answer is D