The memory that refers to our memory of meaningful facts, rules, definitions, concepts and principles is termed as
ASemantic memory ✓ Correct
BEpisodic memory
CProcedural memory
DNone of the above
Correct answer: (A) Semantic memory
Explanation
Memory for meaningful facts, rules, definitions, concepts and principles is semantic memory.
It stores general, decontextualized knowledge about the world, independent of when or where it was learned.
Episodic memory instead holds personally experienced events tied to a particular time and place.
Procedural memory holds skills and how to perform actions, like riding a cycle, not factual meaning.
The none option fails because semantic memory precisely names this store of meaningful knowledge.
Endel Tulving in 1972 drew the classic distinction between episodic and semantic long term memory.
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