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An individual's awareness of his or her own memory processes and the ways in which storage and retrieval of information can be enhanced is termed as

ASemantic memory
BEpisodic memory
CProcedural memory
DMeta memory ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Meta memory
Explanation

A person's awareness of his or her own memory processes and of ways to improve storage and retrieval is meta memory.

It lets a learner judge what is known, how well, and which strategies will aid remembering.

Semantic memory is the store of meaningful facts and concepts, not awareness about remembering.

Episodic memory holds time and place bound personal events, again a content store rather than awareness.

Procedural memory holds skills and action sequences, unrelated to monitoring one's memory.

Meta memory is a component of metacognition, the wider knowledge and control of one's own cognition.

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