Exercise your wheels of thinking and you would know what this word means.

In simple
terms (skipping the complex definition that will follow), cognition refers to the process of
thinking. It is the identification of knowledge, of understanding it and perceiving it.
Cognition is the process by which one acquires knowledge through experience, thought and
sensory input. When a person uses this cognition to integrate various inputs to create an
understanding, it's called as cognitive thinking. Cognitive skills are used to comprehend,
process, remember and apply incoming information.Jul 15, 2018
Cognition is the act or process of gathering knowledge ( experience ) and later recall it as when
required. Cognitive science is the science which deals with the process of cognition and the
algorithms in the underlying process. It can be thought of as psychology but relating to memory
and reprduction of memory.Nov 28, 2015
According to the American Psychological Association, or APA, cognition can be defined as the
processes of knowing, including attending, remembering, and reasoning. It can also be defined
as the content of these processes, such as concepts and memories.
Cognition is a term referring to the mental processes involved in gaining knowledge and
comprehension. These processes include thinking, knowing, remembering, judging and
problem-solving. These are higher-level functions of the brain and encompass language,
imagination, perception, and planning.

Cognitive brain functions constitute the ability to work with information in a meaningful
way, apply information that has already been gained, perform preferential changes, and
the ability for someone to change opinions about that information.
Learning is an example of cognition. The way our brain makes connection as we learn
concepts in different ways to remember what we have learned. 3. Our ability to reason through
logic is a prime example of cognition.
Examples include verbal, spatial, psychomotor, and processing-
speed ability." Cognition mainly refers to things like memory, the ability to learn new
information, speech, understanding of written material.
Metacognition refers to one's awareness of and ability to regulate one's own thinking. Some
everyday examples of metacognition include: awareness that you have difficulty remembering
people's names in social situations. reminding yourself that you should try to remember the
name of a person you just met.
Activities for Metacognition. ... Metacognitive activities can guide students as they: Identify
what they already know. Articulate what they learned. Communicate their knowledge, skills, and
abilities to a specific audience, such as a hiring committee.Jul 2
Metacognition: Nurturing Self-Awareness in the Classroom. When students
practice metacognition, the act of thinking about their thinking helps them make greater sense
of their life experiences and start achieving at higher levels.
Effective learning involves planning and goal-setting, monitoring one's progress, and adapting
as needed. All of these activities are metacognitive in nature. By teaching students these skills
- all of which can be learned - we can improve student learning.
Metacognitive practices help students become aware of their strengths and weaknesses as
learners, writers, readers, test-takers, group members, etc. A key element is recognizing the
limit of one's knowledge or ability and then figuring out how to expand that knowledge or extend
the ability.
Having well-developed metacognitive thinking skills is associated with improved learning.
While some students develop metacognitive skills on their own, others need explicit
instruction. ... Regulation of cognition includes the ability to plan, monitor, regulate and
evaluate your learning process.
Metacognition is critical for the learning process. It's teaching the why, not just the how. It
helps students to be active readers and critical thinkers. What's more, it increases confidence
and empowers students to transfer the concepts they learn in the classroom to other disciplines
and to real life
Metacognition is "cognition about cognition", "thinking about thinking", "knowing about
knowing", becoming "aware of one's awareness" and higher-order thinking skills.
... Metacognition can take many forms; it includes knowledge about when and how to use
particular strategies for learning or problem-solving.
Cognition vs. Metacognition. ... Metacogition is defined as the scientific study of an individual's
cognitions about his or her own cognitions. Cognition is a mental process that include memory,
attention, producing and understanding language, reasoning, learning, problem-solving and
decision making.
Group work and collaboration further enable students to develop metacognition as these
skills help students to work through problems in new ways. Working with others
enables students to look at problems from new perspectives and helps them to understand
how they might better approach problems in the future.Ja Cognition about cognition, knowing
about knowing, thinking about thinking.
In other words, metacognition deals with the capacity to self-monitor, self-assess, and self-
evaluate in order to locate and fix a difficulty in comprehension. Research has proven that the
ability to demonstrate metacognitive thought during reading is critically important for both the
beginning and accomplished reader.
Metacognitive strategies are those strategies which require students to think about their own
thinking as they engage in academic tasks. ... The purpose of the study is to determine the
effectiveness of systematic direct instruction of multiple metacognitive strategies designed to
assist students in comprehending text
Cognition- empirical (also empiric) analytic (or analytical), coherent, consequent, good, logical,
rational, reasonable, sensible, sound, valid, well-founded, well-grounded.
Metacognition refers to a student's ability to be aware of what they are thinking about and
choosing a helpful thought process. It captures students' ability to analyse how they think, have
high self-awareness and control of their thoughts and choose an appropriate and helpful
strategy for the task at hand.
111 Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.” “To know
that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is disease.” “Learn
to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.
5. THINKING ABOUT THINKING (METACOGNITION)

Being aware of your own thoughts, feelings,

and actions and their effects of on others.

Think about your thinking!

“I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head.

Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works.”

Richard Bolles

“To be able to be caught up into the world of thought, that is being educated.”

Edith Hamilton

“To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is

essential to difficult achievement.”

Bertrand Russell

“If you think you can, you can.

And if you think you can’t, you’re right.”

Mary Kay Ash

“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”

Socrates

“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”

Napoleon
“To know that you do not know is the best.

To pretend to know when you do not know is disease.”

Lao Tsu

“Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.”

Grenville Kleiser

“Everything we do consciously remains for us.”

Gurdjieff and Ouspinsky

“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself”

Plato

The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a
glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What
delight this is I cannot tell!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Human thought is a process by which human ends are ultimately answered.”

Daniel Webster

“Keep in mind always the present your are constructing. It should be the future you want.”

Alice Walker

“If the head is ready, the body will follow. “

Alexander Popov
“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.”

Bertrand Russell

“The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.”

Robert H. Schuller

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.”

Alberto Tomba

“Watch your thoughts, they become words.

Watch your words; they become actions.

Watch your actions; they become habits.

Watch your habits; they become character.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”

Frank Outlaw

“Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of

the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.”

John Kao

“I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented.

I just don’t think that everybody is disciplined. I think that’s a rare commodity.”

Al Hirschfield

“If I look confused it’s because I’m thinking.”

Samuel Goldwyn
“Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with
some play and some pure foolishness.”

May Sarton

“The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.”

Sarah J. Hale

“I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.”

Wayne Dyer

“If you had a friend who talked to you, like you sometimes talk to yourself,

would you continue to hang around with that person?”

Rob Bremer

“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”

Edmund Burke

“Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.”

Georg C. Lichtenberg

“This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.”

Dan Millman

“Optimism is an intellectual choice.”

Diana Schneider

“He who knows others is wise; / He knows himself is enlightened.”

Lao-Tzu”

“A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.”

John Powell

“When every physical and mental resources is focused-

one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.”

Norman Vincent Peale

“To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are

and what gives meaning to your life.”

Paula Brownlee

“Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns,

invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.”

Edward de Bono

“If your struggle with the conflicting parts of yourself is conscious, you are able to choose consciously the
response that will create the karma that you desire. You will be able to bring to bear upon your decision an
awareness of what lies behind each choice, and the consequences of each choice, and choose
accordingly. When you enter into your decision-making dynamic consciously, you insert your will
consciously into the creative cycle through which your soul evolves, and you enter consciously into your own
evolution.”

Gary Zukav

“Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.”

Audrey Giorgi
“The brain’s capacity and desire to make or elicit patterns of meaning is one of the keys of brain-based
learning. We never really understand something until we can create a model or metaphor derived from our
unique personal world. Learning and memory are influenced by the sets, intentions and plans generated in the
neocortex of the brain as well as by the information received from the immediate environment and from
internal states, drives, and muscular responses. The reality we perceive, feel, see and hear is influenced by the
constructive processes of the brain as well as by the cues that impinge upon it.”

Merlin C. Wittrock

“The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable

ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”

Henry David Thoreau<TD WIDTH=”ffcc00″ width

“Your mind is a very small, yet potent part of you. Control it, focus it and nourish it with positive thoughts
that resonate with your authentic self.”

Brian Koslow

“I’ve reached the moment where the movement of my thought

interests me more than the thought itself.”

Pablo Picasso

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”

Pablo Picasso

It isn’t what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.”
Eugene Ionesco

“You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to
you, to let your mind think.”

Mortimer Adler, educator

“A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.”

James Russell Lowell

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that
honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

Albert Einstein

“Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the
grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of

the summer sky. I don’t believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without
downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is

really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.”

Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer Prize winning writer

“They can because they think they can.”

Virgil

“If you don’t daydream and kind of plan things out in your

imagination you never get there. You have to start someplace.”

Robert Duvall, actor

“If you do not ask yourself what it is you know, you will go on listening to others and change will not come
because you will not hear your own truth.”

Saint Bartholomew

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

Albert Camus

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

Albert Einstein, Physicist

“Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.”

Knute Rockne, Football Coach

“A goal is created three times. First, as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and
dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement.”

Gary Ryan Blair, “The Goals Guy”

“Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift,
lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.”

Barbara De Angelis, author

“The voice of intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”

Sigmund Freud

“People don’t win because they’re physically stronger.

It’s because they’re stronger between the ears.”

Alexandra Shaffer, Olympic Alpine skier

“There is one art of which every man should be master: the art of reflection.”
Samuel T. Coleridge

“Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.”

Bill Russell, basketball legend

“Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.”

Ray Knight, baseball player

“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know.

It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.”

Anatole France, Nobel Prize-winning author

“The more aware you are of your feelings, the easier it will be to

take charge of your destiny and attract the life of your dreams.”

Peggy McColl, author of Your Destiny Switch

“Concentration can be cultivated.

One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one’s body and train one’s mind.”

Anil Ambani Indian businessman

“Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They
see in their mind’s eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.”

Charles A. Garfield,American author

“To have ideas is to gather flowers;

to think is to weave them into garlands.”

Anne Sophie Swetchine, Russian mystic and salon owner