While trying to decide what to do on their first date, Jevon and Jennifer were throwing out ideas. Jevon said "Why don't we go play pool and have a few beers?" Jennifer smiled at the decidedly masculine tone of that idea, and said,
"I don't really know how to play pool!" If Jennifer were speaking in the language of memory theory, she might have said "I don't have the __________ memory of how to do that activity."
a. procedural
b. explicit
c. eidetic
d. iconic
Answer: A
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