Metacognition: what we know about what we know.

There are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns (Rumsfeld).

“Being accurate in your judgement of what you know and don’t know is critical for decision making.”

Cognitive psychology deals in metacognition. It focuses on how we think, perceive, and remember.

\n \"Cognitive psychology is the basic science of understanding how the mind works, conducting empirical research into\n how people percieve, remember, and think.\"\n

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What you've learned about learning

\n This single sentence from Make It Stick{\" \"}\n packs in most of the key themes from the books and the lessons in this course:\n

\n \n “More complex and durable learning comes from self-testing, introducing certain difficulties in practice,\n waiting to re-study material until a little forgetting has set in, and interleaving the practice of one skill or\n topic with another.”\n \n

\n Self-testing is retrieval practice. Introducing certain difficulties is{\" \"}\n generation. Waiting to re-study material is{\" \"}\n spaced repetition. And lastly, interleaving one skill or topic with another is, of course,{\" \"}\n interleaving.\n

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Books

Mindset by Carol Dweck
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
TODO

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