Roderick arrived at the lab to participate in a study in which he was given two tasks: to remember a list of words and to remember the details of a story. The cognitive psychologist conducting this experiment was measuring his ________.

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Roderick's ability to remember a list of words and the details of a story are both examples of episodic memory, which is the type of memory that involves remembering specific events or experiences. The other options (IQ, prospective memory, and nondeclarative memory) are not relevant to the tasks described in the scenario.

Roderick Arrived at the Lab to Participate in a Study