Exam 2 (Metacognition)

Question 1

What is metacognition?

Answer 1

knowledge and beliefs about your cognition

• awareness
• understanding
• monitoring self

Question 2

What is spatial metacognition?

Answer 2

judgments of one’s sense of direction or “i am lost”

- overall good, we know if we are good at this

Question 3

What is comprehension monitoring?

Answer 3

awareness of whether one understands what one is reading, seeing, hearing, etc.

• failure common
• overestimate how much we comprehend

Question 4

What is metamemory?

Answer 4

one’s awareness and control of memory processes and capacities

• rough idea of relatively how good your memory is
• ease of learning
• how close you were to remembering
• tip-of-tongue phenomenon

Question 5

What are the three types of metamemory?

Answer 5

1. self-knowledge
2. knowledge about differences among tasks
3. strategic knowledge (knowing what strategy to use to learn something)

Question 6

When is your metamemory more accurate?

Answer 6

• easy material
• overlearning; active learning
• intentional
• feedback (pretest) used

Question 7

What is the optimistic bias?

Answer 7

we tend to overrate performance

- includes foresight and hindsight biases

Question 8

What is the above-average effect?

Answer 8

people end to overestimate a wide range of performance and competencies including use of logic, skill, speed of task completion, and confidence in performance

Question 9

How might metacogntition impair performance on your next test?

Answer 9

likely to be overconfident that you’ll understand and remember

Question 10

How might metacognition improve performance on your next test?

Answer 10

overprepare in our minds, use various kinds of self-tests