Metacognition: A Textbook for Cognitive, Educational, Lifespan and Applied Psychology

Metcalfe, Janet/ Dunlosky, John

ISBN 10: 1412939720 / ISBN 13: 9781412939720

Editore: Sage Pubns, 2008

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• Titolo: Metacognition: A Textbook for Cognitive, Educational, Lifespan and Applied Psychology
• Editore: Sage Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1412939720
• ISBN 13: 9781412939720
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Brand New
• Peso: 0,45 chilogrammi

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Riassunto

Metacognition is the first textbook to focus on people's extraordinary ability to evaluate and control their cognitive processes. This comprehensive text covers both theoretical and empirical metacognitive research in educational, developmental,

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John Dunlosky is Associate Professor of Psychology at Kent State University.  He received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Washington in 1993.  He has been extensively involved in metacogntive research, both theoretical and applied, for over 15 years and has written journal articles and book chapters and has edited monographic volumes on the topic, including Hacker, Dunlosky, and Graesser′s Metacognition in Educational Theory and Practice (LEA, 1998).  He has worked with grants from the Department of Education, the National Institute on Aging, and elsewhere on applied cognitive research and applying metacognition to learning.  He is on the editorial board of the newly established journal Metacognition and Learning.

Janet Metcalfe is Professor of Psychology and of Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University.  She has been extensively involved in metacognitive research, both theoretical and applied, for over 15 years and has written journal articles and book chapters and has edited monographic volumes on the topic, including Metcalfe and Shimamura′s Metacognition: Knowing about Knowing (MIT, 1994).  She is on the editorial board of the newly established journal Metacognition and Learning.