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metacognitive
[ met-uh-kog-ni-tiv ]
adjective
- having to do with metacognition, high-level thinking that enables understanding:
The students are disengaged from the curriculum, and they have not gained a metacognitive understanding of the material.
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of metacognitive1
Example Sentences
These observations suggested that familial environment was more likely to influence metacognitive abilities than genetics.
They are metacognitive signs that our model-building is going well, that we have succeeded in resolving uncertainty about the world using our own thinking and actions.
You've got this very pure sensation that you know something and that feeling that you know something is metacognitive.
Specifically, we adapted a method called metacognitive training from schizophrenia research and created a self-paced online version of the intervention.
It trains patients in “metacognitive skills†such as observing their own thought processes, identifying situations where they’re prone to make cognitive errors, and reflecting on how to approach a new task.
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