metacognition
[ met-uh-kog-nish-uhn ]
/ ˌmɛt ə kɒgˈnɪʃ ən /
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noun Psychology.
higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
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OTHER WORDS FROM metacognition
met·a·cog·ni·tive [met-uh-kog-ni-tiv], /ˌmɛt əˈkɒg nɪ tɪv/, adjectiveWords nearby metacognition
metachromophil, metachronous, metachrosis, metacinnabar, metacinnabarite, metacognition, metacognitive, Metacomet, metacomputer, metacryst, metadata
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How to use metacognition in a sentence
For instance, a basic form of metacognition, confidence, scales with the clarity of conscious experience.
We can endow them with metacognition—an introspective ability to report their internal mental states.
Some philosophers and neuroscientists have sought to develop the idea that metacognition is the essence of consciousness.
My colleagues and I are trying to implement metacognition in neural networks so that they can communicate their internal states.
British Dictionary definitions for metacognition
metacognition
/ (ˌmɛtəkɒɡˈnɪʃən) /
noun
psychol thinking about one's own mental processes
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