Definition of metacognition
: awareness or analysis of one's own learning or thinking processes
research on metacognition … has demonstrated the value of monitoring one's own cognitive processes— Colette A. Daiute
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Time Traveler for metacognition
The first known use of metacognition was in 1972
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