Carving Metacognition at Its Joints: Protracted Development of Component Processes.

The Mediating Role of Metacognition in the Relationship between Internet Addiction and General Health

Background: Internet addiction is one of the harmful effects of the Internet. The findings of several studies have indicated a relationship between general health and Internet addiction. Metacognition, which includes the knowledge, processes, and strategies to evaluate, and monitor or control the cognition, can play a significant role in this regard. The present research aimed to assess the me...

Carving Nature at Its Joints and Carving Joints into Nature: How Labels Augment Category Representations

Using words to label categories is a true human universal. In addition to their public function in communication, labels may also serve private functions in shaping how concepts are represented. The present work explored the effects of assigning category labels on perceptual representations. A connectionist simulation is presented that examines the effects of labels on learning different types ...

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition Carving Executive Control at Its Joints: Working Memory Capacity Predicts Stimulus–Stimulus, But Not Stimulus–Response, Conflict

Intra-Individual and Inter-Levels of Metacognition across EFL Writing Tasks of Multi Difficulty Levels

This study investigated the quality of metacognition at its inter-individual level, i.e., socially-shared metacognition, across two collaborative writing tasks of different difficulty levels among a cohort of Iranian EFL learners.  Moreover, it examined the correlation between the individual and the social modes of metacognition in writing.  The analysis of think-aloud protocols of a number of ...

The Development of the Metacognitive Thinking Skills Scale

It is observed that majority of recent studies on cognitive learning are dealing with metacognition. Metacognition is used to follow and regulate cognitive processes such as learning, problem solving, comprehension, reasoning and memory. Therefore, it is possible to gather all information about a problem encountered by the individuals, including its solution, comprehension of its outline or ess...