Cognitive Learning Processes and Metacognition

These flashcards cover key concepts from cognitive learning processes and metacognition discussed in the lecture.

Cognitive Learning Processes

Focus on how information is received, organized, stored and retrieved by the mind.

Metacognition

Cognition about cognition; the deliberate conscious control of cognitive activity.

Conditional Knowledge

Understanding when and why to employ forms of declarative and procedural knowledge.

Epistemic Thinking

Cognitive and metacognitive processes involving learners' beliefs about how they learn.

Functional Fixedness

The inability to perceive different uses for objects or new configurations of elements in a situation.

Prototype Theory

The perspective that a prototype is a generalized image of the concept, which may include only some of the concept's defining attributes.

Heuristics

General methods for solving problems that employ principles (rules of thumb) which usually lead to a solution.

Generate-and-Test Strategy

A problem-solving strategy useful when a limited number of solutions can be tested to see if they attain the goal.

Conceptual Change

The process of restructuring the concepts that are foundational to beliefs about knowledge and information.

Problem Solving

People's efforts to achieve a goal for which they do not have an automatic solution.