METACOGNITION

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Risk Management and Decision Making — Metacognition

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Metacognition is seeing inside our own thought processes: the process of metacognition means thinking about thinking. Four elements of metacognition are most important:
    

  • being aware of memory limitations and cognitive capacity limitations,

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  • having the ‘big picture’ [a holistic view],

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  • ability to self-critique, and

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  • strategy selection (Klein, 1998: 158).

    •      Metacognition is explained in greater detail by Forrest-Pressley, Mackinnon and Waller (1985).


     

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