Metacognition

By Janet Metcalfe (editor), Arthur P. Shimamura (editor),

Book cover of Metacognition: Knowing About Knowing

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The term metacognition describes our self-knowledge about how we perceive, remember, think, and act. This volume contains 12 original contributions that describe psychological research on metacognition and the conditions under which metacognitive beliefs are either veridical, spurious, or biased. They explore how self-reflective processes are affected by subject variables such…

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1 author picked Metacognition as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is a book with various chapters written by psychologists who have studied metacognition extensively. Metacognition involves thinking about your own thinking, and psychologists all agree that it is a prime requisite to becoming creative. A creative person has to understand how his/her/their brain actually thinks. This book taught me the pitfalls in human metacognitive processes, the value of recall, the feeling of knowing or not knowing, portions of the brain responsible for various creative functions, metacognitive possibilities in older age, and metacognition’s influence on problem identification and solving. This book opened my eyes to the critical nature of metacognition…

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