How to Use metacognitive in a Sentence

metacognitive

adjective

• This slight friction, though minor, required a moment of metacognitive awareness.
  — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
• These metacognitive skills are what allow our intelligence to be adaptable and transferable across domains.
  — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
• The metacognitive state vector informs a control system that acts as the conductor, telling it to switch modes to System 2.
  — Ricky J. Sethi, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
• This metacognitive process — thinking about thinking — is what develops cognitive muscle memory.
  — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
• This metacognitive pedagogical approach is an effective way to engage students in archival research and reflect on their own news consumption and attention as first-year college students.
  — Joshua Finnell, JSTOR Daily, 1 Oct. 2025
• In Warhead, Wright explains how armed conflict impacts every part of our brain, from the instinctive reflexes of our reptilian brainstem to the cognitive and metacognitive functions of the prefrontal cortex.
  — Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
• System 2 brings intentional control and metacognitive monitoring—the ability to think about one’s thinking—which creates multiple verification cycles.
  — Luis E. Romero, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• The metacognitive state vector acts as the conductor’s awareness, constantly monitoring whether the orchestra is in harmony, whether someone is out of tune, or whether a particularly difficult passage requires extra attention.
  — Ricky J. Sethi, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
• The next phase in our work involves validating the framework with extensive testing, measuring how metacognitive monitoring improves performance across diverse tasks, and extending the framework to start reasoning about reasoning, or metareasoning.
  — Ricky J. Sethi, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
• Using technology to effectively offload cognitive workouts can have a detrimental effect on learning and memory and can cause people to misread their own understanding or abilities, leading to what psychologists call metacognitive errors.
  — Brian W. Stone, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
• The human brain’s recursive processing, supported by neural connectivity and metacognitive control, enables more thorough error detection and alternative exploration.
  — Luis E. Romero, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• How Travel Can Benefit Children From a psychological standpoint, travel develops emotional intelligence, metacognitive (thinking about your thinking) and problem-solving skills.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• ChatGPT-5’s seamless operation bypasses metacognitive development.
  — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025