Janine Is Getting Married and Has Decided to Assign Seating

Janine is getting married and has decided to assign seating at her reception. She is now working on deciding who will sit at each of the tables in the reception hall. She has to worry about who will sit up front and who will sit toward the rear. She has to think about whom to sit next to Uncle Earl and also consider the need to separate Aunt Thelma from Aunt Zoe. The thinking Janine will have to use to solve this problem is an example of:

A) strategic knowledge.
B) metacognition.
C) formal operational thinking.
D) memory capacity.