Metacognitive Knowledge and Skills Flashcards

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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 ___.

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awareness; regulation; metacognition.

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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

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Knowing what one’s learning and memory capability are and what learning tasks one can realistically accomplish.

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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.

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Knowing which learning strategies are effective and which are not.

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What type of metacognitive knowledge does the following example illustrate? Thinking about the context in which a certain piece of information was probably learned.

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Knowing effective strategies for retrieval of previously stored information.

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What type of metacognitive skills does the following example illustrate? Put the mobile phone away in the lecture theatre.

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Planning a variable approach to a new learning task.

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What type of metacognitive skills does the following example illustrate? Using bottom-up processing when one has no prior knowledge of the subject.

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Tailoring learning strategies to the circumstance.

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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.

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Monitoring one’s present knowledge state.

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