What are the consequences of improved metacognitive skills?

What are the consequences of improved metacognitive skills?

• A. Decreased focus on our own cognitive processes.
• B. Increased thinking about our own thoughts, emotions, and increased self-consciousness.
• C. Decreased motivation to plan ahead.
• D. Greater reliance on external feedback only.

Answer: (B)

Growing metacognitive skills means you become more aware of how you think, learn, and even feel while working on tasks. This heightened self-awareness leads to more reflection on your own thoughts and emotions and can increase self-consciousness about your performance. That self-monitoring is a core part of metacognition and helps you decide what strategies to use, when to change strategies, and how to plan ahead, which improves learning and performance. The other options describe outcomes that don’t typically accompany improved metacognition: you don’t lose focus on cognitive processes; instead you actively monitor them. Planning ahead tends to be enhanced, not decreased. And while external feedback can help, metacognition promotes using internal monitoring and regulation, not relying only on others.

Growing metacognitive skills means you become more aware of how you think, learn, and even feel while working on tasks. This heightened self-awareness leads to more reflection on your own thoughts and emotions and can increase self-consciousness about your performance. That self-monitoring is a core part of metacognition and helps you decide what strategies to use, when to change strategies, and how to plan ahead, which improves learning and performance. The other options describe outcomes that don’t typically accompany improved metacognition: you don’t lose focus on cognitive processes; instead you actively monitor them. Planning ahead tends to be enhanced, not decreased. And while external feedback can help, metacognition promotes using internal monitoring and regulation, not relying only on others.