• Rakefet Ackerman and Valerie A Thompson.
• Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
• Trends Cogn. Sci. (Regul. Ed.). 2017 Aug 1; 21 (8): 607-617.

AbstractMeta-Reasoning refers to the processes that monitor the progress of our reasoning and problem-solving activities and regulate the time and effort devoted to them. Monitoring processes are usually experienced as feelings of certainty or uncertainty about how well a process has, or will, unfold. These feelings are based on heuristic cues, which are not necessarily reliable. Nevertheless, we rely on these feelings of (un)certainty to regulate our mental effort. Most metacognitive research has focused on memorization and knowledge retrieval, with little attention paid to more complex processes, such as reasoning and problem solving. In that context, we recently developed a Meta-Reasoning framework, used here to review existing findings, consider their consequences, and frame questions for future research.Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

6 keywords...

hide…