Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder experience difficulties with social skills, which can be attributed to deficits in Theory of Mind (ToM, the ability to infer others thoughts) and metacognitive abilities (thinking about your own thinking). Neuroimaging studies have revealed that the medial prefrontal cortex is part of the ToM and metacognitive networks, and is underactive in individuals...

this study aimed to investigate the relationship between metacognitive beliefs and self-efficacy in elementary school teachers and their professional skills of orumieh city. the population of this study was all 984 elementary school teachers of second region of orumieh ,so 276 of them were chosen according to kocran formula. three metacognitive beliefs, professional competence and sherer’s self...

the present study aimed to examine the efficacy of metacognitive therapy in treatment of patients with pure obsession.six patients suffering from pure obsession were selected using purposeful sampling method and were included after meeting the inclusion criteria of the study. patients were assessed using the structured clinical interview for dsm- iv axis i disorder - patient edition (scid- i/p)...

The authors investigated differences in the processes underlying two types of metacomprehension judgments: judgments of difficulty and predictions of performance (JOD vs. POP). An experiment was conducted to assess whether these two types of judgments aligned with different types of processing cues, and whether their accuracy correlated with different factors such as sensitivity to processing e...

Research carried out so far has failed to establish systematic learning benefits of animated graphics over static ones, even in the case of dynamic systems. We hypothesize that animation promotes the understanding of dynamic systems if delivery features decrease the perceptual and cognitive load of processing the animation. We therefore report an experimental study investigating the effects of ...

We investigated whether metacognitive suggestions alone can function as a means of encouraging recipients’ reflection and facilitate hypothesis revision. We also examined whether it is necessary to ground the suggestions on the recipients’ thinking processes for the facilitative effects. 108 participants were assigned to one of the four conditions: metacognitive suggestion collaboration with/wi...

The assessment of students’ metacognitive knowledge and skills about reading is critical in determining their ability to read academic texts and do so with comprehension. In this paper, we used induction trees to extract metacognitive knowledge about reading from a reading strategies dataset obtained from a group of 1636 undergraduate college students. Using a C4.5 algorithm, we constructed dec...

BACKGROUND There is a need for qualitative research to help develop case conceptualisations to guide the development of Metacognitive Therapy interventions for Eating Disorders. METHOD A qualitative study informed by grounded theory methodology was conducted involving open-ended interviews with 27 women aged 18-55 years, who were seeking or receiving treatment for a diagnosed ED. RESULTS Th...

The study explored the role of metacognition in foreign language anxiety on a sample of 411 Taiwanese students of English as a Foreign Language. The reading strategy inventory was employed to evaluate the tertiary learners’ level of metacognitive awareness and a semi-structured background questionnaire was also used to examine the learners’ perceptions of their English proficiency and satisfact...

Metacognition, the ability to assess one's own knowledge, has been targeted as a critical learning mechanism in mathematics education. Yet the early childhood origins of metacognition have proven difficult to study. Using a novel nonverbal task and a comprehensive set of metacognitive measures, we provided the strongest evidence to date that young children are metacognitive. We showed that chil...