Thinking About Thinking: The Process Of Thinking

‘ Thinking about thinking‘, everyone thinks, its a human nature and we were born with brains and once it functions properly every action we take we have to think. Much of our thinking is distorted, self-serving, vague or unorganized. But we humans are so confident we think that we have figured out the way things are and that we have done so objectively. We naturally believe in our own psychological standards even if they are wrong. For example you would hear older people telling you once you’ve finished ironing or being in the heat you cannot take a bathe or go in the refrigerator because your going to get a flu or get sick in someway, that’s there psychological thinking of heat and cold combining. Therefore when we question and reflect on the way we think or on our thoughts and

Thinking about thinking Thinking about thinking is a simple definition of metacognition. Metacognition can be defined as the process in which an individual may question the way in which their mind understands, interprets and stores and process the information it may receive as well as the way in which it receives it. (American Psychological Association). (Flavell 1979), metacognition consists of both metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive experiences or regulation. Metacognitive knowledge refers to the information an individual knows about his/her self and metacognitive regulation is basically ones awareness of their own cognition and learning experiences by engaging in activities to achieve more knowledge or learn new things. Flavell further divides metacognitive knowledge into three categories: knowledge of person variables, task variables and strategy