In this case, your friend is having a tip-of-the-tongue experience to accompany her feeling of knowing. She's made a strategy selection to ask you instead of to wrack her brains. The context of seeing this person with some expected markers of a famous person -- in Hollywood, well-dressed and attractive -- has misled her. I'm not sure if this has been validated in the same way as other metacognitive topics, but it also seems like one's expectation introduces biases. Perhaps an expectation lowers the FOK threshold, making us more susceptible to fainter clues.
2 - Person with normal memory but no metacognitive awareness/no FOK. Her interactions with others would be disrupted, because, for example, if she failed to remember a person's name, having been in a FOK state might make her apologetic or create additional motivation for remembering their name the next time. A lack of FOK would also be an impairment for trivia games, because FOK assists with strategy selection. If she has no FOK, presumably she never knows if she is likely to know it if she thinks harder or if she will actually never know an answer. I wouldn't call this normal memory. Strategy selection for recall is very helpful in many domains; compared to the annoyance of an occasional TOT state I would not want a condition like hers.
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