Knowra Metacognition Metacognition Metacognition is awareness of and control over one’s own thinking, including judgments about what one knows and choices about how to learn or solve problems.
Metacognitive monitoring : The assessment of one’s own understanding, memory, or task performance while thinking. Monitoring supplies the judgments that guide metacognitive control.
Cognition : The mental processes involved in acquiring, representing, and using knowledge. Metacognition concerns knowledge and regulation of these underlying processes.
Metacognitive therapy : A psychotherapy that targets beliefs about thinking and patterns of attention and rumination. It applies metacognitive ideas to persistent worry, rumination, and psychological distress.
Mindfulness : A mode of attention that involves noticing present experience with openness and reduced judgment. Mindfulness attends to experience, while metacognition specifically concerns thinking about or regulating cognition.
Metacognitive control : The selection and adjustment of cognitive strategies in response to goals and monitoring. It turns awareness of thinking into decisions about what to do next.
Executive functions : Cognitive processes that support goal-directed control, including inhibition, working memory, and flexibility. Executive control supports regulation, though it is not identical to metacognitive awareness.
Reading comprehension : The construction of meaning from written language through understanding and integration of text. Readers use comprehension monitoring to notice confusion and choose repair strategies.
Mind wandering : The shift of attention from a current task toward thoughts unrelated to that task. Mind wandering can occur without awareness, whereas metacognition includes awareness of mental activity.
Metamemory : Knowledge and monitoring of one’s own memory processes and abilities. Memory judgments are a major domain of metacognitive awareness.
Working memory : A limited-capacity system for temporarily maintaining and manipulating information. Monitoring and regulating thought often depend on what can be held in mind.
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