METACOGNITION - A STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPING SELF- REGULATORY MECHANISMS
Keywords:
Cognition, Metacognition, Strategy, Self- regulationAbstract
This article explains Metacognition in a practical way as it is being used as a strategy for developing self- regulatory mechanisms. You will comprehend the fundamentals of this potent psychological instrument and way of thinking after reading. This writes up provides a general definition of the idea along with illustrations, suggestions, elements of metacognitive regulation and advices, the relationship between metacognition and the need for cognition, effortful cognitive activity, and metacognition which is one’s thinking about thinking and how these variables relate to intellectual task performance.
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