metacognition

• * '' 'Excerpt:' '' .... there are two core meanings of the term metacognition to which most researchers using that label often refer: monitoring and control of cognitive processes .... —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• Neither of the principal two components of metacognition - monitoring and controlling one's thoughts - necessarily require conscious mental processing. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• These findings include the role of students 'prior knowledge and misconceptions in building a conceptual structure, the importance of student motivation and self-monitoring of learning (metacognition), and the substantial differences among learners. —  The Fischbowl
• Self-report scales of anxiety, worrying and depression including negative metacognition about worrying and thought suppression served as secondary outcome measures.
• These results indicate that confidence estimates, previously suggested to require 'metacognition'11, 12 and conscious awareness13, 14, are available even in the rodent brain, can be computed with relatively simple operations, and can drive adaptive behaviour. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library

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