Knowing how to do something is called what?

• A. Declarative Knowledge
• B. Transfer
• C. Automatization
• D. Procedural Knowledge

Answer: (D)

Knowing how to do something is procedural knowledge. This category covers the ability to perform tasks, follow steps, and carry out processes—it's about doing the skill, not just knowing facts. In language learning, procedural knowledge would be the ability to actually form sentences, conjugate verbs, or use grammar correctly in real-time. Declarative knowledge, by contrast, is knowing facts or rules—like knowing that a verb changes in a certain way or remembering vocabulary. Automatization is when practice makes a skill become automatic, which is a stage that procedural knowledge can reach with enough repetition. Transfer is about applying what you know in one context to a new one. So the term that best describes “knowing how to do something” is procedural knowledge.