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• In practicing Deliberately

  1. Planning to learn
  2. Reflection and self assessment
  3. Think-alouds
  4. Developing and using processes
  5. Summarizing and synthesizing information
  6. Mental scripting
  7. Then you are applying the Metacognition concept.
• "in a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishments."

  Growth mindset
• Postulates that people will only try to do what they think they can do, and would not try what they think they cannot do can't do.

  Dweck's Mindset Theory
• Practicing setting goals and planning strengthen our regulation of cognition
• Unwillingness to put fourth mental and physical effort is one way of blocking an individual's goal to achieve.
• Irrationality is one way of blockage of an individual's goal to achieve.
• Bandura's Self Efficacy Theory of motivation in psychology:

  1. Mastery experiences (performance outcomes)
  2. Vicarious experiences (social role models)
  3. Social Persuasion/Verbal and Persuasion
• One of the best proven ways to learn a new skill or to improve one's performance in a given activity is by practicing.

  Mastery Experiences ( Performance Outcomes)
• This experiences involve observing other people successfully completing a task.

  Vicarious experiences (social role models)
• Receiving positive verbal feedback while undertaking a complex task persuades a person to believe that they have the skills and capabilities to succeed.

  Social persuasion/ Verbal persuasion
• Is a mental attitude one takes that determines how one will respond and understand the situation.

  Mindset
• Driven by the beliefs, biases, and prejudice of the unconscious mind, like for example merely speaking or acting without much thought and is more concerned about the now which may be regretted after.

  Reaction
• Often referred to as 'thinking about thinking', particularly to improve learning.

  Metacognitive skills
• Means thinking about your thinking or the process of considering and regulating one's own learning.

  Metacognition
• It is the most complex organ in the body and it contains 100 billion nerve cells.

  Brain
• Primary appraisal is when we perform the initial evaluation of stimulus and categorize it as either positive, negative or neutral, than we apply.
• 'We cannot give what we do not have", an old saying that makes such relevant sense in most, if not all, aspect of her life. t means that we have to learn to take care of ourselves before we can take care of others.
• Is a way of thinking about your own intelligence and abilities. Specifically, is it describes viewing your intelligence and abilities as innate in a changeable.

  Fixed mindset
• Cycle of self:

  1. Plan, set goals and layout strategies
  2. Use strategies and monitor performance
  3. Reflect on performance
• In locke's goal setting theory, the man's ultimate goal is happiness.
• One of the best reflective questions to strengthen your Metacognitive Skills is "how can i create the best, most destruction-free physical environment for the task?".