In a visit to a police station to provide a statement concerning your witnessing a crime, you were asked to identify the mug shots in a book in the hopes of identifying a criminal involved in the crime.The policeman asks you if you are able to identify anyone in the pictures you were shown.You stated that you are sure a certain person was the culprit.The policeman asked you if you were sure.You replied that you never forget a face.This awareness of your ability to identify faces is termed:
A)metamemory.
B)judgment calls.
C)reality monitoring.
D)explicit memory.

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Metamemory refers to our knowledge and awareness of our own memory processes, such as our ability to remember faces. In this scenario, the individual is demonstrating their awareness of their ability to recognize faces and their confidence in their memory. The other options do not specifically pertain to this situation or describe the individual's awareness of their own memory processes.

In a Visit to a Police Station to Provide a Statement