Metacognition is one’s awareness and understanding of their own thought processes. It involves using knowledge for the task, knowledge of ways to learn, and innate knowledge of themselves to plan their learning, monitor their progress towards a goal, and evaluate the outcome.
Metacognitive regulation is the ability to control and direct one’s thinking processes. This could involve planning, monitoring and evaluating true comprehension during a task. When you realize you’re not understanding some text and decide to slow down and re-read something, that’s an example of metacognitive regulation.
Cognitive (Knowledge-based)
To be able to remember, understand, apply analyze, create and evaluate one’s knowledge.
Affective (Emotion-based)
Measures how much one cares about (enjoys) what they are learning.
Passive(lowest), active, valuation, organization, and characterization (where one cares enough to generate their own take on the knowledge)
Psychomotor (Action-based)
The ability to actually manipulate relevant tools.
Perception (seeing the need to reach for a solution/tool), readiness to react, guided response (imitation of someone’s use of a tool), mechanism (use of such tool becomes natural), complex overt response (highest, where you can even alter existing tools or build your own).
See also: Common sense, Rationality, Tiny Experiments