PSYC 3800 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Confirmation Bias, Divergent Thinking, Critical Thinking
21 Jul 2016
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Executive control processes: processes such as selective attention, rehearsal, elaboration, and organization that influence encoding, storage, and retrieval of information in memory. Higher order knowledge about your own thinking as well as our ability to use this knowledge to manage your own cognitive processes such as comprehending and problem solving. Declarative knowledge about yourself as a learner: factors that influence your learning and memory, and skills, strategies, and resources you need to perform a task, knowing what to do. Procedural knowledge: knowing how to use the strategies. Self-regulatory knowledge to ensure completion of the task: knowing the conditions, when and why, to apply the procedures and strategies, 3 essential skills. Deciding how much time to give to a task, which strategies to use, how to start, which resources to gather, what order to follow, what to skim and what to give attention to, etc. Is the real time awareness of how am i doing .
