Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

4-25-2025

Keywords

accurate judgments, cognition, general cognition, judgment, judgments, memory, metacomprehension, metacognition, metamemory, reading comprehension, thinking about cognition, thinking about thinking

Disciplines

Cognition and Perception | Cognitive Psychology | Developmental Psychology

Abstract

Metacognition is thinking about cognition or thinking about thinking. It includes what you know about how your own cognition and cognition in general work. Metacognition also involves the judgments we make about our cognition and how accurate those judgments are. Metamemory and meta-comprehension are the most studied areas of metacognition and refer to the judgments we make about our memory and about our reading comprehension, respectively.

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