Metacognition Chapter 1 D&M Notes

Notes from text (quotes) Ch 1.

Metacognition	"refers to thoughts about one's own thoughts and cognitions"	Ex: a 'tip of the tongue' event Deciding to write down a grocery list or directions making decisions about how to study because of what you know about how your brain works
Metacognitive Knowledge	"declarative knowledge about cognition -- facts, beliefs about cognition that you can state verbally". How learning operates how to improve learning	Ex: Cramming doesn't work but it's better than nothing Noise and distractions are bad for studying
Metacognitive Monitoring	"assessing or evaluating the ongoing progress or the current state of a cognitive activity"	Ex: judging whether your are approaching the correct solution assessing how well you understand what you are reading
Metacognitive Control	"regulating some aspect of a cognitive activity including stopping it, deciding to continue it, or changing it midstream"	Ex: deciding to use a new tactic to solve a difficult problem deciding to spend more time trying to remember the answer to a trivia problem

Relationship between Metacognition and Cognition

Meta-level and Object-level
Object level is the actual processes of interest -- attention, learning, language processing, problem solving
Meta level has a model of the understanding, informed by monitoring of progress and metacognitive knowledge overall.
When meta modifies object: Control
When object modifies meta: Monitoring