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Metamemory

Metamemory: Subcomponent of Metacognition - 4 Characteristics & 2 Types|Psychology

  • Person՚s knowledge regarding contents and memory regulation is metamemory or thinking about thinking. It derives from John H. Flavell՚s work in the early 1970՚s
  • It plays important role in planning, cognitive resource allocation, strategy selection, comprehension monitoring, and performance evaluation
  • Factual Knowledge about Memory Tasks and Processes: Knowledge about both how memory works and about strategic behaviors
    • Memory SelfEfficacy-: Sense of how well memory is used in demanding situations
    • MemoryRelated Affect-: Emotional states that may be related to or generated by memory demanding situations
    • Memory Monitoring: Awareness of how memory is typically used as well as awareness of the current state of memory

Declarative

It helps evaluate memory contents & corresponds to content and memory context use including knowledge of contents, essential intellectual tasks (e. g. , problem solving) and analyzing why & when strategies are most effective

  • Knowledge of Contents and Capacity: Helps assess one՚s knowledge to meet task demands.
  • Knowledge of Tasks: Determines whether person can fully understands task demands and possesses resources to do the task
  • Conditional Knowledge about Optimal Memory Performance: Determines why, when, and where to use the strategy & best place to achieve optimal performance & selfregulation-

Procedural

It monitors and regulates memory performance

  • Control: It includes regulatory processes like planning, selecting information, resource allocating decisions, selecting strategies and inferences.
  • Monitoring: It includes selfassessment strategies like judgments of learning prior to beginning task, knowing judgments made during learning & comprehension monitoring judgments during or after any task. -

Belief

It regulates affect, social cognition & efficacy judgments of memory performance

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