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Cognition vs. Metacognition — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Cognition and Metacognition

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Cognition

Cognition ( (listen)) refers to "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses many aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as: perception, attention, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language.
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Metacognition

Metacognition is an awareness of one's own thought processes and an understanding of the patterns behind them. The term comes from the root word meta, meaning "beyond", or "on top of".
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Cognition

The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
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Metacognition

(philosophy) the act of thinking about thinking; sentience
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Cognition

The mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment.
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Cognition

That which comes to be known, as through perception, reasoning, or intuition; knowledge.
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Cognition

The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.
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Cognition

(countable) A result of a cognitive process.
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Cognition

The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.
I will not be myself nor have cognationOf what I feel: I am all patience.
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Cognition

That which is known.
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Cognition

The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
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