This type of knowledge describes our capability for using techniques to learn information.
What is Strategy Knowledge?
100
"Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally" and/or PEMDAS are examples of this.
What is Acronym?
100
This plays a role in the development of metacognition, in particular, our family experiences.
What is Environment?
100
Elle is determined to get into Harvard to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a criminal defense lawyer. She is more likely to plan her assignments out and use learning strategies because of this.
What is Motivation?
200
This is the first step of metacognitive regulation.
What is Planning?
200
This is the action of repeating the information over and over.
What is Maintenance Rehearsal?
200
If students have this, they are better able to understand, organize, and retain new information.
What is Prior Knowledge?
200
Suzie is in math class and is given a short quiz. "I am good at multiplying by 10," Suzie thinks to herself, "but I am not as good at multiplying by 7." Suzie's self assessment is an example of this.
What is Person Knowledge?
300
This type of knowledge related to how we perceive the difficulty of an assignment based on content, length, and assignment type.
What is Task Knowledge?
300
This learning strategy is connecting new information to prior knowledge.
What is Elaborative Rehearsal?
300
Students who have more of this are more likely to invest time and energy into metacognitive strategies.
What is Motivation?
300
Jimmy realized his history paper would be difficult when he saw it needed to be 30 pages. Jimmy's assignment evaluation is an example of this.
What is Task Knowledge?
400
Person knowledge refers to understanding this.
What are Our Own Capabilities?
400
Connecting the first item to the second, the second to the third, and so on is called this.
What is Chain Mnemonic?
400
Autism causes a deficit in the ability to understand these.
What are the Mind and Thoughts of People?
400
Tyrone finished in his power lifting competition and realized he spent too much time perfecting his squats, and not enough time working on his bench press. His self assessment is an example of this.
What is Evaluation?
500
Self-testing and self-explanation are two examples of this regulation technique.
What is Monitoring?
500
This is associating new words and concepts with similar sounding words and images.
What is Keyword Method?
500
This neurological impairment causes difficulty with planning, monitoring, and evaluating strategies.
What are intellectual disabilities?
500
Ezekiel is studying and decides acronyms are better for remembering the planets while maintenance rehearsal is better for memorizing his speech. This is an example of...