Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
4-25-2025
Keywords
cognition, judgement, metacognition, metacomprehension, metamemory
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 metacomprehension are the most studied areas of metacognition and refer to the judgments we make about our memory and about our reading comprehension, respectively.
Recommended Citation
Fulton, Erika and Miyake, Tina, "Metacognition" (2025). Essays in Developmental Psychology. 131.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/edp/131
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