Adequate knowledge, cognitive skill and metacognition are the key ingredients leading to the development of leadership mastery. In this teaching demonstration, the application of reciprocal peer coaching to influence knowledge, cognition and more importantly metacognition is discussed. Metacognition is a higher order cognitive process that involves evaluating the state of one’s own knowledge ba...

Micah Allen1,2, James C. Glen1, Daniel Müllensiefen3, Dietrich Samuel Schwarzkopf1,4, 2 Martina F. Callaghan2, Geraint Rees1,2 3 4 1Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL 5 2Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging at UCL 6 3Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London 7 4Experimental Psychology, 26 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AP 8 9 Abstract: 10 The ability to introspectively evaluate our...

Software agents “living” and acting in a real world software environment, such as an operating system, a network, or a database system, can carry out many tasks for humans. Metacognition is very important for humans. It guides people to select, evaluate, revise, and abandon cognitive tasks, goals, and strategies. Thus, metacognition plays an important role in human-like software agents. Metacog...

There is widespread agreement that metacognition is not demonstrated if alternative explanations account for putative meta-cognition data. However, there is less agreement on which studies are protected from alternative explanations. We have argued that existing experiments on uncertainty monitoring can be explained by low-level explanations without assuming metacognition (Crystal & Foote, 2009...

This paper aims to apply metacognitive theory in EFL writing instruction to provide an alternative solution to the difficulties and problems in EFL writing classes in China. Metacognition is knowledge about cognition and regulation of cognition. This paper advocates both teaching with metacognition and teaching for metacognition. To teach with metacognition, an EFL writing instructor should ref...

While some studies view metacognition and social cognition as representing the same phenomenon, others suggest that they represent distinctive sets of abilities that are related to different outcomes. The current study used a cross-sectional design that includes samples of persons with schizophrenia (N=39) and healthy individuals (N=60) to further explore the distinction between social cognitio...

This study connected with the aim of relationship between attitudes and social competence in parent-child emotional metacognition. With Cochran formula and Multi-stage cluster random sampling method 250 students were selected as a sample size. Emotional metacognition questionnaires conducted on students and their parents to complete the religious attitudes and social competence. Statistical mod...