Some studies, so far limited in number, suggest the existence of procedural metacognition in young children, that is, the practical capacity to monitor and control one's own cognitive activity in a given task. The link between procedural metacognition and false belief understanding is currently under theoretical discussion. If data with primates seem to indicate that procedural metacognition an...

The present study examines a simple model for the relationship between temperament, anxiety and maladaptive metacognition. A clinical sample of patients diagnosed with anxiety disorders (n = 216) completed a set of self-reported questionnaires measuring temperament dimensions, state anxiety and metacognitions. Three temperament traits were included in the hypothesized model: emotional reactivit...

The relationship between metacognition and executive control is explored. According to an analysis by Fernandez-Duque, Baird, and Posner (this issue), metacognitive regulation involves attention, conflict resolution, error correction, inhibitory control, and emotional regulation. These aspects of metacognition are presumed to be mediated by a neural circuit involving midfrontal brain regions. A...

We present a structuralist analysis of the current state of cognitive science research into the phenomenon of metacognition. We begin from the assumption that cognitive intelligence is an organ just like any other biological organ, with the defined function of allowing intelligent entities to maintain homeostasis with a changing but predictable environment. This understanding leads to the concl...

Metacognition refers to “thinking about thinking” or our ability to know what we know, what we don’t know and how to regulate as well as control such thinking. This article seeks to give an overview of some issues related to metacognition, a construct which received a considerable attention on the part of teaching theoreticians and researchers. It starts with a brief introduction of metacogniti...

Deficits in metacognition, that is, in the ability to think about one’s own thinking and the thinking of others, have been identified as a significant barrier to recovery from schizophrenia. While this has raised the possibility that individual psychotherapy might be focused to help persons with schizophrenia improve their capacity for metacognition, little has been written about what that migh...

Listening comprehension is difficult for foreign language learners, but, in recent years, an increasing number of studies assert that enhancing learners’ awareness listening metacognition and self-efficacy can help address this issue. Accordingly, research sought to 1) investigate the level metacognitive performing 2) examine association between EFL students’ performance, self-efficacy, awarene...

Metacognition is one of the important components to measure student learning achievement in university. knowledge can significantly students' critical thinking skills, especially solving problems. The ability solve problems serves as a bridge among metacognition well educational success. This study aims determine metacognitive on complex social geography. sample research were 163 divided into t...

The highest honor within the Teaching of Physiology Section of the American Physiology Society (APS) is to be selected to present the Claude Bernard Lecture during the Experimental Biology Meetings. The 2010 recipient was Prof. Robert A. Bjork (Fig. 1), who currently is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) while being Director and a Principl...