Improving Metacognition
Metacognition identifies as the thought processes involved in planning, monitoring, and assessing a person’s cognitive functions and understanding. Additionally, it refers to being aware of one’s knowledge. In the day to day activities, cognitive processes are in constant motion. Hence a person is always thinking about this or that. However, in some instances, certain factors play into inhibiting metacognition. Therefore, there are assessments made with regards to strategies that apply to enhance the improvement of metacognition among people.
Sequencing and grouping tasks according to Rose (2009) is one of the strategies applied in improving metacognition. While at his mother’s place of work during his childhood days, he observed how she worked smart by making every move count (Rose, 2009). Further, in an article by Dunning (2014), this ability to group and organize tasks to sync with one’s thought processes identifies with logic. Besides, the author states that people are unbridled in pattern recognition (Dunning 2014). Thus, recognizing patterns and understanding how the mind works is essential in facilitating better metacognition.
Dunning (2014) implies that people are born wrong and, as such, are shaped intellectually by the beliefs that exist in society. Consequently, observation and education hold the responsibility for the improvement of knowledge and understanding in people. As a result, they become confident in their metacognition in certain situations, such as answering questions relating to the gained education (Dunning, 2014). Concurrently, Rose (2009) states that a person’s intelligence foundation lies based on the type of training they receive. For instance, in the case of his uncle Joe’s growth in the management industry, regardless of his educational level (Rose, 2009). He improved his metacognition through observation and learning from what he observed.
From the arguments presented by Rose (2009) and Dunning (2014), strategies that affect the improvement of one’s knowledge are socially obtained, either at a workplace or a social gathering. Therefore, implying that historically, metacognition construction focused on confidence, motivational reasoning, observation,n and understanding the concepts that correlate to the gained knowledge.
Works Cited
Dunning, David. “We Are All Confident Idiots.” Pacific Standard, Health and Behavior, 2014. https://www3.nd.edu/~ghaeffel/ConfidentIdiots.pdf
Rose, Mike. “Blue-Color Brilliance.” The American Scholar, 2009. https://theamericanscholar.org/blue-collar-brilliance/#.XnpAlogvPIV