ABSTRACT
Psychology.—Metacognition (cognition about cognition) encompasses the knowledge and cognitive processes whose object is cognition and whose task is to control and verify one’s own cognitive functioning (→ CONTROL). According to the psychologist John Flavell, whose work in the 1970s on intentional memorization in children made a powerful contribution to the development of research in this field (→MEMORY), two interdependent dimensions come into play: metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive experiences.
