When Rip Van Winkle returns to his native village, after 20 years of sleeping in the mountains, he goes immediately to the location of his former house and asks for his wife and children by name. The kind of memory that he is exhibiting is _______.

A) procedural memory
B) semantic memory
C) episodic memory
D) eidetic memory

Rip Van Winkle is exhibiting episodic memory as he is recalling specific events and personal experiences from his past, such as his wife and children. Procedural memory refers to the memory of skills and habits, semantic memory refers to general knowledge and facts, and eidetic memory refers to photographic memory, which is not relevant to this scenario.