Unit 8 - Metacognition

Question 1

Metacognition

Answer 1

Thinking about one own’s cognitive processes in learning

ie. thinking about thinking

Question 2

Monitoring

Answer 2

Process on monitoring one own’s cognitive processes

ex. do i remember this?

Question 3

Judgment or learning

Answer 3

study phase

Question 4

Feeling of knowing

Answer 4

during the test phase

Question 5

Control strategies

Answer 5

Strategies to control and improve cognitive process

ex. will this study strategy help me?

Question 6

Effect of aging on metacognition

Answer 6

most of the work on aging and metacognition monitoring has been on episodic memory - it is fairly preserved in aging

Question 7

Role or prefrontal cortex in metacogntion

Answer 7

losses in prefrontal cortex show losses in metacognition.

Question 8

Dunning-Kruger effect

Answer 8

unskilled individuals typically overestimate ability; skilled people underestimate their ability

*unskilled people have a poor metacognition