The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is the sensation you get when you can't quite remember a name or word (e.g., an answer to a question) but it feels like the word might come to you at any moment, like it is on the tip of your tongue but you can't quite verbalise it, and it is often very frustrating.
William James, often preferred to as the Father of American Psychology, had come up with and described this phenomenon;
"Suppose we try to recall a forgotten name. The state of our consciousness is peculiar. There is a gap therein but no mere gap. It is a gap that is intensely active. A sort of wraith of the name is in it, beckoning us in a given direction, making us at moments tingle with the sense of our closeness and then letting us sink back without the longed-for term. If wrong names are proposed to us, this singularly definite gap acts immediately so as to negate them. They do not fit the mould. "
William James, often preferred to as the Father of American Psychology, had come up with and described this phenomenon;
"Suppose we try to recall a forgotten name. The state of our consciousness is peculiar. There is a gap therein but no mere gap. It is a gap that is intensely active. A sort of wraith of the name is in it, beckoning us in a given direction, making us at moments tingle with the sense of our closeness and then letting us sink back without the longed-for term. If wrong names are proposed to us, this singularly definite gap acts immediately so as to negate them. They do not fit the mould. "
- William James (Principles of Psychology)
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