Child Poverty. About 15 million children in the United States â 21% of all children â live in families with incomes below the federal poverty threshold, a measurement that has been shown to underestimate the needs of families. Research shows that, on average, families need an income of about twice that level to cover basic expenses.
Tip of the tongue effect. The tip of the tongue (TOT or Tot or Presque vu) is a metacognitive phenomenon, an instance of knowing something that cannot immediately be recalled. TOT is an experience with memory recollection involving difficulty retrieving a well-known word or familiar name.
Smith, S. M., Brown, J. M., & Balfour, S. P. (1991). TOTimals: A controlled experimental method for studying tip-of-the-tongue states. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society; Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. In 1966 R. Brown and D. McNeill did an experiment on people to test the TOT phenomena (tip of the tongue). In the experiment Brown and McNeill gave each person the meaning of a random word. They explained to all the people that if they couldn't think of the word that went with the meaning they were told but felt like they did know it then they were in a TOT state.