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)
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 ~
ah ha, the example you have given might be an interesting analogy which relates to the concept we learnt in the class.But in your first example,from my own view,taking notes in the class might be the Metacognition. And doing the homework or solving some problems through applying knowledge learnt from the class might be the third level-epistemis cognition.Since epistemis cognition is something that individuals reflect on the limits of knowing, the certainty of knowing, and criteria of knowing.
回复删除"Trying to know someone more, or even understand someone, can be a second step one should make in friends making" I agree with you that you said this sentence. I also think it's the second level of cognition. In my opinion, the metacognition level is used to express someone want to learn knowledge and do some behavior to get this information. It's an active process.I think the epistemic cognition is a critical process.After you have learned some knowledge about someone area, you will put forward your own opinion about some comments,either agreement or disagreement,or even Maintain a neutral stance.
回复删除I do find definition confusing all the time, if not given proper analogy. :P
回复删除My analogy would be like as follows, which is quite similar to yours:
cognition: to meet new people; to exchange basic information
Meta-cog: to communicate; to associate; to understand personalities; to categorize them (which sounds a bit insulting?)
epistemic: to conclude the type of people I want to get along with; to refine friends-making philosophy through continuous networking
However these still sound a bit trivial, wait and see more astonishing comments! =D
The three concepts are puzzling me a lot. Having read my friends' post, I guess we can distinguish them by two aspects, Object and Method.
回复删除Using your example：
First level, Object: the person's information, like gender, age, appearance, etc.; Method: look, hear.
Second level, Object: some information you want to know; Method: try to know deeply by asking questions or playing together.
Third level, Object: your feeling for this person, your decision that whether to keep relation with this person; Method: compare this person to all the persons you have known based on the information you get.
Maybe I am still confused....
Maybe you are going to get into the epistemic cognition, as you are not sure if you can further extend your friendship analogy that in some extend you are trying to reiterate/judging your theory on friendship with respect to the cognition which is the methodology to formalize your information to become your knowledge - the epistemic cognition.
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