The developmental origin of metacognition
Författare
Summary, in English
We explain metacognition as a management of cognitive resources that does not necessitate algorithmic strategies or metarepresentation. When pragmatic, world-directed actions cannot reduce the distance to the goal, agents engage in epistemic action directed at cognition. Such actions often are physical and involve other people, and so are open to observation. Taking a dynamic systems approach to development, we suggest that implicit and perceptual metacognition emerges from dyadic reciprocal interaction. Early intersubjectivity allows infants to internalize and construct rudimentary strategies for monitoring and control of their own and others’ cognitions by emotion and attention. The functions of initiating, maintaining, and achieving turns make proto-conversation a productive platform for developing metacognition. It enables caregiver and infant to create shared routines for epistemic actions that permit training of metacognitive skills. The adult is of double epistemic use to the infant – as a teacher that comments on and corrects the infant’s efforts, and as the infant’s cognitive resource in its own right.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
85-101
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Infant and Child Development
Volym
22
Issue
1
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Ämne
- Psychology
Nyckelord
- metacognitive skills
- epistemic action
- intersubjectivity
- reciprocal interaction
- attention
- emotion
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- CogComlab
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1522-7219