Chapter 15: Metacognition and Effective Learning Strategies

Question 1

What is Metacognition?

Answer 1

Cognitive processes used to plan, monitor, assess one’s understanding and performance

Question 2

3 Knowledge involved in metacognition

Answer 2

Declarative knowledge: beliefs about knowledge, the applicability of strategies and their likelihood of success.

Procedural knowledge: Whether one knows how to carry out cognitive work that accomplishes tasks

Conditional knowledge: Whether a proposition is the case or whether a procedure is appropriate for achieving a goal

Question 3

3 Metacognitive processes

Answer 3

Metacognitive monitoring: Awareness of, or reflecting on, one’s own learning or knowledge

Metacognitive control: Using one’s own reflections to guide subsequent behaviours.

Self-regulated learning: Spans multiple instances of monitoring and control to shape and adapt thinking during an extended complex task.

Question 4

steps in Metacognitive control

Answer 4

Acquisition, retention, retrieval

Question 5

Cycle of Self-regulated learning

Answer 5

Plan and set goals
use strat and monitor performance
reflect and adapt

Question 6

Metacognitive illusions

Answer 6

Immediate test: Nelson and Dunlosky (1992)
Pretesting: Pan and Rivers (2023)
Perceptual fluency: Font size illusion, word volume illusion, disfluent font illusion