FROM COGNITION TO METACOGNITION -- STH ABOUT WHAT I THINK

During our last class, three new words were introducted to us, all of which were new to me. When I try to learn those processes, I find something in my daily life, which may be able to be combined with that.

Let's think back about what it is first ~

•Kitchener, K. S. (1983) found three level of cognitive activities possible in problem solving:

–Level 1: Cognition (认知): individuals memorize, read, write, and perceive media (人們记忆，读，写，觉察各項媒体)

–Level 2: Metacognition (元认知): individuals monitor their own progress when they are engaged in these first-order tasks (人們监控自己所从事的一阶任务的进展)

–Level 3: Epistemic Cognition (知识认知) : individuals reflect on the limits of knowing, the certainty of knowing, and criteria of knowing (人們反思”知”的极限，”知”的确定性，和”知道”的準則)

 

And in the chart before, cognition is linked to data, metacognition to information, and epistemis cognition to knowledge.

Here I think of two activities in our life, one of which was learning a new course. Going to have the class can be the first step, corresponding to cognition. When teachers give some information or data about the course to us, we have a first glance at the new thing and get a picture of it. Doing homework or other more research about the course can be the second step.

The other one can be the activity of making friends. I got this idea from a talk among my friends yesterday. We all have quite a lot of chance to meet new ones every day. Getting known of someone new seems to be easy and simple. So if we want to make new friends, that can be a good beginning. Maybe it's the level of cogniton? And then comes my thought about the next level. Trying to know someone more, or even understand someone, can be a second step one should make in friends making. Can I link it to metacognition? Formerly, I'm quite unwilling to know someone new. Because I think trying to make friends with people totally unfamiliar is too high-risk for me. What if I found he/she is in fact totally different with me? Then how can I continue the relationship between us? Finally my friends told me that knowing someone can be a good start. Someone will go on to be your friends and someone will stay on being "someone you know only", forever. But that is fine ~ It doesn't mean it's not good to get it a start. So can I say firends and "someone you know only" get distinguished during the level of metacogniton?

That's all my personal thought only, maybe not so exact. Welcome to correct me and you see, I still can't make a clear picture about level 3, epistemic cognition. Are you willing to help me match it to real activities? Thank you ~