metacognitionn.
/ˌmɛtəkɒɡˈnɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌmɛdəˌkɑɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/ Psychology.
1. Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes, esp. regarded as having a role in directing those processes.
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the mind > mental capacity > thought > [noun] > observing one's thinking
self-observation1600
metacognition1972
1972 L. R. Gleitman et al. in Cognition 1 161 The lower-order process often proceeds without any meta-cognition... Examples of meta-cognition in memory are recollection..and intentional learning.
1977 Child Devel. 48 1/1 Metacognition refers to the individual's knowledge concerning his own cognitive processes, and the development of such self-awareness in children has become a topic of considerable interest.
1981 Monogr. Soc. Res. Child Devel. 46 No. 5. (serial no. 192) 3 Metacognition means knowledge and cognitive activity that takes cognitive phenomena as its object.
1999 Korean Jrnl. Thinking & Problem-solving 9 85 Theoretical perspectives from different areas of psychological studies..are presented, to demonstrate the construct utility of metacognition.
2. As a count noun: a metacognitive perception, notion, or intuition.
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1981 Jrnl. Educ. Psychol. 73 181 Interpretations were in terms of meta-cognitions related to taking notes.
1993 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 64 43 The essential result of this involvement and socialization as she sees it is learning metacognitions about writing.
1999 Jrnl. Clin. Psychol. 55 527 Cravings are construed as metacognitions.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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