ISBN Metacognitive Diversity ( An Interdisciplinary Approach ) book 464 pages

Metacognition refers to our awareness of our own mental processes such as perceiving remembering learning and problem solving. It is a fascinating area of research for psychologists neuroscientists anthropologists sociologists and philosophers. This book explores the variability of metacognitive skills across cultures since a person's decision to allocate effort motivation to learn sense of being right or wrong in perceptions memories and other cognitive tasks depends on specific transmitted goals norms and values. Across nineteen chapters a group of leading authors analyze the variable and universal features associated with these dimensions drawing on cutting-edge evidence. Additionally new domains of metacognitive variability are considered in this volume including those generated by metacognition-oriented embodied practices (present in rituals and religious worship) and culture-specific lay theories about subjective uncertainty and knowledge regarding natural or supernatural entities. It also documents universal metacognitive features such as children's earlier sensitivity to their own ignorance than to that of others people's intuitive understanding of what counts as knowledge and speakers' sensitivity to informational sources (independently of the way the information is linguistically expressed). The book is important reading for students and scholars in cognitive and cultural psychology anthopology developmental and social psychology linguistics and philosophy.