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- adjective Pertaining to
metacognition .
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One essential tool: the "metacognitive" assignment.
CHE > Latest news 2010
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Sure they create absurd scenarios to try and protect themselves but still they know what they are and in those quiet metacognitive moments they shudder and cry for they do know what sad sad losers they really are ….
Think Progress » Scott Brown Yawns At Plane Attack On IRS Building: ‘No One Likes Paying Taxes’ 2010
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In this effect, “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.”
Think Progress » Lieberman Gets A Chuckle Out Of Peddling Far-Right Nuke Myth 2010
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If you have the metacognitive faculties to wonder at your own abilities, then your abilities are in fine condition.
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If you have the metacognitive faculties to wonder at your own abilities, then your abilities are in fine condition.
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Tim Vacuous, a textbook case of the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is a cognitive bias in which “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it”.
Think Progress » Gingrich Pledges Government Shutdown If GOP Wins Back House And Senate 2010
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The smartest people tend to be the ones with the most metacognitive skills, not theleast.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010
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We can focus on techniques that enhance attention and memory, therapies that help people integrate thoughts and feelings, helping people understand worry through greater mindfulness and therapies based on metacognitive therapy, and offer well-matched solutions from meditation to intense psychological interventions so that this greater support can get the soldiers back on track to compete fairly in the workforce.
Srinivasan Pillay: Returning U.S. Soldiers, Trauma and the Job Market 2010
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The smartest people tend to be the ones with the most metacognitive skills, not theleast.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010
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The story Caprica keeps referring to the metacognitive processor MCP chip.
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