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Metacognition and Problem Solving
Lecture Notes 18 and 19
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
04/30/2013

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Metacognition
Definition
Thinking about thinking,being aware of your thinking and learning process.
Involves declarative, procedural and conditional knowledge.
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Purpose of metacognition
Definition
regulate thinking and learning by planning, monitoring, and evaulating
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Metacognition - Planning
Definition
strategies, schedules, gathering materials, and decide what to focus on
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Metacognition - Monitoring
Definition
Monitoring progress.
Ex. Asking self "how am i doing, does this make sense, am i skimming too much?"
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Metacognition - Evaulating
Definition
Evaulating process by asking
"Do i need to change strategies, should I seek help, do i need to come back to this, etc."
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Learning Strategies
Definition
Focusing attention, Summarizing, Highlighting, taking notes, organizing
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Well Structured problem
Definition
one solution with direct path. All info is present to solve problem
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Ill Structured problem
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Multiple solutions, with unclear goal and missing information.
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5 step problem solving model
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Identify the problem, represent the problem, plan, enact, evaluate.
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Convergent
Definition
Focus on one solution
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Divergent
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Many solutions
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Functional Fixedness
Definition
lose our ability to think of more creative solutions to a problem other than its traditional use.
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Creativity
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Taking something ordinary and finding a new way to use it. Need to think divergently
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Critical Thinking skills
Definition
Detecting unclear assumptions, bias, logical fallacies, and determining strength of argument
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Transfers of Learning
Definition
Knowledge gained in one setting/environment and applying to another
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