Shannon is currently a college professor. Which memory from Shannon's fourth grade experience would most likely be an episodic memory?
A) The low-level clouds that look like sheets floating in the air are called stratus clouds.
B) For the last two months of school, she shared her NFL mechanical pencil with Nick.
C) Four inches of snow contain the same amount of water as 0.4 inches of rain.
D) To mark its territory, a wild boar scrapes a tree as high as it can with its tusk.

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Episodic memories are memories of personal experiences and events. Sharing an NFL mechanical pencil with Nick in fourth grade is a specific personal experience that would be classified as an episodic memory. The other choices are factual information that may be stored as semantic memories.

Shannon Is Currently a College Professor