Metacognitive Knowledge
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Metacognition
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2024
Metacognition is a conscious process where individuals are aware of their cognitive and executive processes, such as planning before solving a problem or self-monitoring during reading. For instance, a writer may need help with composing a piece. The situation involves a writer who is working on a piece of writing, but while doing so, they realize that something is missing. They notice that their characters lack depth or details. This realization occurs because the writer is reflecting on their...
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Metacognitive Development: How Children Estimate Their Memory
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Judith Danovitch and Nicholaus Noles—University of Louisville Human memory is fallible, and people often cannot accurately recall what they have seen or heard. Adults are aware of their limited memory capacity, so they use strategies, such as rehearsal and mnemonic devices, to improve their recall of important information. Because adults understand the limits of memory, they know it makes more sense to write down the items on their shopping list rather than to try to...
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High-definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation over Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex to Enhance Metacognitive Sensitivity
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2025
This study proposed an experimental paradigm that applies High-Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (HD-tDCS) to improve human metacognition in human-AI delegation tasks. The results demonstrated the effectiveness of HD-tDCS in enhancing metacognitive sensitivity.
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Multimodal Protocol for Assessing Metacognition and Self-Regulation in Adults with Learning Difficulties
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2020
The current work proposes a multimodal evaluation protocol focused on metacognitive, self-regulation of learning, and emotional processes, which make up the basis of the difficulties in adults with LDs.
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Exploring the Role of Deontic Reasoning and World Knowledge in Wason´s Selection Task
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2025
This study aims to analyze how people reason with and about normative rules, deontic reasoning, and the importance of world knowledge in subjects´ inferences. For this purpose, one of the main experimental paradigms in reasoning research was used: Wason´s selection task.
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The three forms work as a coordinated system rather than isolated abilities. Declarative knowledge identifies relevant facts about the learner and available strategies; procedural knowledge supports carrying a strategy out; conditional knowledge connects that strategy to the circumstances in which it is appropriate and explains why. Together, they support more deliberate regulation of cognition.
Metacognitive knowledge matters because strategy selection is not automatically effective. A learner can know that a strategy exists yet still need to determine whether it fits the task and personal capabilities. Monitoring the strategy’s effectiveness provides information for adjustment, linking awareness of strengths and limitations with changes in ongoing thinking or learning.
Changing task conditions make conditional knowledge especially important. The same approach may not remain suitable when task demands change, so the learner must reconsider what is required and whether the current strategy is working. This flexibility allows self-regulated cognition to move beyond simply applying a familiar strategy in every situation.
In educational settings, it helps researchers and practitioners examine how learners relate cognitive strengths, limitations, strategies, and task demands to their learning decisions. This perspective can guide interventions aimed at improving self-regulated cognition, particularly when learners must judge what they know, choose an approach, monitor its effectiveness, and adjust it.
It connects memory and problem-solving research to the learner’s or thinker’s awareness of strategy use and task requirements. Researchers can use this perspective to consider not only whether a person reaches an outcome, but also how judgments about knowledge, strategy suitability, and changing demands shape the cognitive approach used.
In clinical psychology, the framework directs attention to how people understand their cognitive strengths, limitations, and available strategies. For lifelong learning, it emphasizes continued adjustment as tasks and demands change. These applications extend metacognitive knowledge beyond a single classroom task, making it relevant to cognition across varied settings and stages of learning.