Voorbeelden van metacognition

• First, metacognition is considered one of humans' most sophisticated cognitive capacities and possibly a uniquely human cognitive capacity.

• This fascinating article raises questions about the nature and possible varieties of metacognition and uncertainty monitoring, and about which creatures might exhibit which varieties.

• Our response summarizes this consensus and the support for the idea that these performances demonstrate animal metacognition.

• By using the same uncertainty-monitoring paradigms across species, it should be possible to map the phylogenetic distribution of metacognition and illuminate the emergence of mind.

• In investigations of the meta-level process per se, the painstaking avoidance of subtle cueing may be less relevant, and an indirect metacognition paradigm suitable.

• If metacognition is the internalized cognitive guidance of the parent, one will not see it in monkeys who don't parent in that way.

• Inadequate integration would contribute to unstable cognitive processing in the interpersonal arena and impaired metacognition defined as immature or faulty analysis of interpersonal situations.

• All agree that pigeons failed this test of metacognition.