The BEST example of metamemory would involve knowing that:

A. whales are mammals, not fish.
B. a 10-word list of unfamiliar foreign words will be harder to recall than a 20-word list of familiar words.
C. 10 + 20 = 30.
D. foreign words come from another country.


Answer: B

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