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A good overview on the topic is Metacognition: A Literature Review (E. R. Lai), page 27 has a section assessing the measures of Metacognition. Flavell (1979) describes assessment tasks that asked children to study a set of items until they were sure they could remember them completely. Children were then tested on their ability to recall all the ...

It seems like there are a lot of ideas out there as to what metacognition really is. Having done my MS thesis in understanding how people learn in engineering programs, I typically think about metacognition as "knowing how to learn." It's typically a goal of engineering education to teach students these skills. Therefore, I would say it's mostly a ...

I'm not sure what you're asking. If it's found that there's awareness of the relationships in the experiment then typically it's argued that's not conditioning and the behaviour is modified through insight. It's been a bone of contention with respect to classical conditioning and humans in the past. You might want to look at Lovibond and Shanks (2002). I ...