Metacognition

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What do we mean by metacognition?

The act of thinking about thinking; sentience

N. The ability to know what you do not know. Urban Dictionary

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The word "metacognition" in example sentences

The term metacognition means thinking about thinking. ❋ Unknown (2010)

* '' '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 .... ❋ Unknown (2009)

A potential trap of thinking about thinking - what we call metacognition - is that you can get stuck in a recursive loop where you are thinking about thinking about thinking, and so on - until it's like standing in a hall of mirrors. ❋ Unknown (2009)

'' '.... there are two core meanings of the term metacognition to which most researchers using that label often refer: monitoring and control of cognitive processes .... ❋ Unknown (2009)

This thinking about their higher thinking is sometimes referred to as metacognition and is well known to energize and deepen learning. ❋ M.D. Mel Levine (2002)

In adults, this skill is often referred to as metacognition, or thinking about thinking, and it's what allows people to outsmart their shortcomings. ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Stephen Novella talks a lot about "metacognition"-essentially, thinking about the way we think. ❋ Maggie Koerth-Baker (2011)

I think I’ll just go away now and think about what I’ve done …. metacognition is a very useful tool in understanding why we do the things we do …. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What you did there was a skill unique to humans called metacognition, or thinking about thinking. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And I want people to practice something called metacognition, or -- it's a technician from AA they use called thinking through the drink. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's called metacognition — the ability to think about your thoughts, to engage in self-reflection, to introspect. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He and his researchers ran several more experiments, but the common theory explaining all their results was that when people experience unexpected distortions of time (i.e., time seemed to pass faster or slower than expected) they seek an explanation by turning to what psychologists call "metacognition," or "thinking about thinking." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cognitive psychologists speak of "metacognition," meaning the way you think affects the way you understand. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“Knowing is half the [battle],” except with [metacognition], you don’t know, so you have already lost half the battle – hopefully you can still win the war. [Hermione] used metacognition so that she knew what to learn study. ❋ Barrackar (2010)

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