Psychology 2610G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Educational Psychology, Metacognition, Procedural Knowledge

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2610G
• Professor: hutchinson

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Wednesday, november 15, 2017 educational psychology complex cognitive processes. Metacognition: means cognition about cognition thinking about thinking, involved declarative, procedural, and self regulatory knowledge, three skills used to regulate thinking and learning; Planning: how much time to give a task. Monitoring: real time awareness how i"m doing". Evaluating: making judgements about processes and outcomes of thinking and learning: individual di erences in metacognition may result from di erent paces of development (maturation) or biological di erences among learners, developing metacognition; In younger students: help students develop habit of looking in" at their own thinking, demonstrate and explain kwl strategies. In older students; build self re ective questions into assignments and learning materials. Learning strategies: learning strategies are a kind of procedural knowledge, use of strategies re ects metacognitive knowledge, learning strategies help students; Monitor their own learning: principles of helping students develop learning strategies. Teach them when, where, and why to use various strategies.