Lecture 3 Flashcards
Metacognition
Thinking about how we think (can also be unconscious).
Metacognitive knowledge
What you know about yourself, about the tasks you have to achieve, or the strategies that you can use to accomplish them.
Metacognitive experiences
Metacognitive feelings, metacognitive judgments, task analysis
Metacognitive control
Selection and use of specific strategies to modify a current cognitive state
Metacognitive confidence
How confident you are in your judgements
Metacognitive sensitivity
Was your judgement right or wrong compared to reality
If you had high confidence but it later turns out that you were wrong, you have low metacognitive sensitivity. If it turns out you were right, you have high metacognitive sensitivity.
Metacognitive bias
Where your judgement stands compared to reality
Climate change beliefs and metacognitive sensitivity/confidence (Fischer et al., 2022)
The lower the MC sensitivity, the higher the risk of moving towards skeptical positions regarding climate change
The lower the MC confidence, the more people would share contrarian information about climate change.
They also saw that people who were overconfident in their judgement about syllogisms tended to believe more in conspiracy theories.
Metacognition (Efklides, 2008)
Nonconscious/object level: you are experiencing something, but are not aware that you are experiencing it
Personal awareness level (meta level): being aware of this sensation
Social level: being aware that you are aware of this sensation
Dunning-Kruger effect
People display illusory superiority: we judge ourselves as better than others to a degree that violates the laws of math. Those with the least ability are often the most likely to overrate their skills to the greatest extent.
People lacking knowledge and skill in particular areas suffer a double curse:
1) They make mistakes and reach poor decisions
2) Those same knowledge gaps also prevent them from catching their errors
People with a moderate amount of knowledge/expertise often have less confidence in their abilities: they know enough to know that there’s a lot they don’t know.
