Metacognitive Knowledge and Skills Flashcards
People’s ___ and understandings of their own thinking and learning processes, as well as their ___ of those processes to enhance their learning and memory, are collectively known as ___.
awareness; regulation; metacognition.
What type of metacognitive knowledge does the following example illustrate? Recognizing that it isn’t possible to memorize 200 pages of text in a single evening
Knowing what one’s learning and memory capability are and what learning tasks one can realistically accomplish.
What type of metacognitive knowledge does the following example illustrate? Knowing that distributed practice is more effective in long-term retention of knowledge than massed practice.
Knowing which learning strategies are effective and which are not.
What type of metacognitive knowledge does the following example illustrate? Thinking about the context in which a certain piece of information was probably learned.
Knowing effective strategies for retrieval of previously stored information.
What type of metacognitive skills does the following example illustrate? Put the mobile phone away in the lecture theatre.
Planning a variable approach to a new learning task.
What type of metacognitive skills does the following example illustrate? Using bottom-up processing when one has no prior knowledge of the subject.
Tailoring learning strategies to the circumstance.
What type of metacognitive skills does the following example illustrate? Knowing certain parts of a chapter needs revision, but skip certain parts of a chapter because one has understood it.
Monitoring one’s present knowledge state.