Vocab
- “thoughts about one’s own thoughts and cognitions” (Norman et al., 2019).
- Monitoring, evaluating, judging, and sometimes influencing our own thinking (Norman et al., 2019).
What is metacognition?
Said "I know what I do not know"?
Who is Socrates? (Norman et al., 2019)
Stage of development in which metacognition begins.
What is early childhood, as early as infancy? (Norman et al., 2019)
Metacognition in the field of psychology has been dominated by this researcher since the 1990s.
Who is Adrian Wells? (Norman et al., 2019)
The central and most important questions related to metacognition in educational psychology.
What are:
-Does metacognition influence learning?
-Can metacognition be taught?
(Norman et al., 2019)
"The person's knowledge and understanding of their own and other people's cognitive abilities and strategies." (Norman et al., 2019)
What is metacognitive knowledge?
Metacognition's previous name.
What is vigorous thinking? (Norman et al., 2019)
How early (2-4 months of age) measures of metacognition are captured.
What is the use of observation of intersubjectivity (the shared perception of reality between two or more individuals)? (Norman et al., 2019)
"Dysfunctional metacognitive beliefs are important contributors to the development and perseverance of psychopathology" (Norman et al., 2019) according this theory.
What is the theory of Self-Regulatory Executive Function (S-REF)? (Norman et al., 2019)
Researchers call this "...an active, constructive process whereby learners set goals for their learning and then attempt to monitor, regulate, and control their cognition, motivation, and behavior, guided and constrained by their goals and the contextual features in the environment” (Norman et al., 2019).
What is self-regulated learning? (Norman et al., 2019)
"The way in which we deliberately engage in various activities to control cognition." (Norman et al., 2019)
What are metacognitive strategies?
In the 1970s, the focus of metacognition was largely on metacognitive knowledge and experiences (Norman et al., 2019). In the late 1970s and 1980s, the focus shifted to:
What is metacognitive control and strategy use? (Norman et al., 2019)
Age at which metacognitive studies focus more on measures of children’s understanding that knowledge is malleable.
What is middle and early childhood? (Norman et al., 2019)
Syndrome that consists of worry, rumination, threat-oriented thoughts, and other poor coping strategies.
What is cognitive attentional syndrome? (Norman et al., 2019)
The developers of the most commonly used self-report inventories, called the Metacognitive Awareness Scale.
Who are Schraw and Dennison? (Norman et al., 2019)
"Feelings and judgements that occur during a cognitive activity and reflect aspects of this activity." (Norman et al., 2019)
What are metacognitive experiences?
Female researcher that came to the conclusion that it is difficult to treat metacognition as a unitary concept due to the differences between conceptualizations among research fields?
Who is Reder? (Norman et al., 2019)
Younger children often overestimate this skill.
What is how easy is is to complete a new task? (Norman et al., 2019)
Proposed as a psychological treatment due to the associations between dysfunctional metacognition and psychopathology.
What is metacognitive therapy? (Norman et al., 2019)
Self-report inventory "designed to capture the two components of the metacognitive concept, with separate subscales for metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive regulation of cognition." (Norman et al., 2019)
What is Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI)? (Norman et al., 2019)
"The objective of the cognitive activity in question." (Norman et al., 2019)
What are metacognitive goals/tasks?
Point in history during which metacognition become an important part of the field of psychology.
What is the end of the 19th century? (Norman et al., 2019)
Stage in life during which both objective task performance and metacognitive efficiency are high.
What is adulthood? (Norman et al., 2019)
What is a metacognitive therapist? (Norman et al., 2019)
Researchers who found the link between metacognition and learning to be relatively weak, despite extensive research on the topic.
Who are Dent & Koenka? (Norman et al., 2019)