CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -n. awareness of one’s own cognitive processes, often involving a conscious attempt to control them. The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, in which one struggles to retrieve something that one knows one knows, provides an interesting and common example of metacognition.

Detailed explanation-2: -Metacognition is, put simply, thinking about one’s thinking. More precisely, it refers to the processes used to plan, monitor, and assess one’s understanding and performance. Metacognition includes a critical awareness of a) one’s thinking and learning and b) oneself as a thinker and learner.

Detailed explanation-3: -What Is Metacognition? Metacognition refers to awareness of one’s own knowledge-what one does and doesn’t know-and one’s ability to understand, control, and manipulate one’s cognitive processes (Meichenbaum, 1985).

Detailed explanation-4: -Metacognition is usually construed as a conscious, intentional process whereby people reflect upon their own mental activity.

Detailed explanation-5: -Introduction. Metacognition is defined as “thinking about thinking” or the ability to monitor and control one’s cognitive processes1 and plays an important role in learning and education2, 3, 4.