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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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