In an English class, Ram remembers the name of the author of a book titled 'The Diary of a Young Girl'. This type of memory is called:

Remembering the name of a book's author is semantic memory, the store of facts and general knowledge.

Procedural memory (A) holds skills and how-to actions, not factual names.

Episodic memory (C) records personal experiences tied to time and place.

Constructive (D) is not a standard type of long-term memory.

Semantic memory stores meanings, facts and concepts independent of personal context.

Semantic and episodic memory together form declarative memory, in Tulving's model.