Question

Discuss the effects of metacognitive regulation on memory performance.

Answer 1

Metacognition is "cognition about cognition", "thinking about thinking", "knowing about knowing", becoming "aware of one's awareness" and higher-order thinking skills. This process concerns about consciousness, in particular, the genesis of subjective experience, the function of self-reflective consciousness, and the cause-and-effect relation between subjective experience and behavior. This process includes two general functions – monitoring and control. The monitoring function refers to the reflective processes involved when we observe and supervise our cognitive processes on-line and evaluate their ease, progress and success. The control function refers to the regulation of cognitive processes, and it includes a variety of higher-order operations that is responsible to initiate, modify, and regulate the course of basic processes.