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Metacognitive Skills

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Metacognitive skills are strategies applied consciously or automatically during learning, cognitive activity, and communication to manipulate cognitive processes before, during, or after a cognitive activity (Flavell, 1976, 1979). Examples are executive function processes such as verbal mediation, self-regulation, planning, judgment, and self-monitoring.

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Application of metacognitive skills allows one to be aware of one’s own beliefs, attitudes, and experiences; to relate those internal states to the external environment and events in order to construct meaning from information; to infer the mental states of others (theory of mind); and to draw implications about the motives and intentions of others. Metacognitive skills contribute to an individual’s communicative competence during interaction with one or more communication partners through pragmatics, or the social use of language. Metacognitive skills in the form of pragmatic skills allow a speaker to...

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  1. Department of Communicartive Sciences and Disorders, California State University East Bay, 25800 Carlos Bee Blvd., 94542, Hayward, CA, USA

    Janet Patterson

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  1. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Professor of Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry Virginia Commonwealth University – Medical Center Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, VCU, 980542, Richmond, Virginia, 23298-0542, USA

    Jeffrey S. Kreutzer

  2. Kessler Foundation Research Center, 1199 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ, 07052, USA

    John DeLuca

  3. Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – New Jersey Medical School, New Jersey, USA

    John DeLuca

  4. Independent Practice, 564 M.O.B. East, 100 E. Lancaster Ave., Wynnewood, PA, 19096, USA

    Bruce Caplan

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Patterson, J. (2011). Metacognitive Skills. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_897

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