Essays on Metacognition

Humanity and Morality

Friedrich Nietzsche The madman Where is God? he cried. I’ll tell you! You have killed him – you and I! We are all his murderers. But how did we do this? How were we able to drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Where is it moving to now? Where are we moving to? Away from all suns? Are we continually falling? And backwards Nietszche The Gay Science 125 The first important observation concerning Nietzsche’s text is that ...

Introduction

Learning a foreign language is a slow and progressive effort which requires constant and responsible practice. Independent study is absolutely necessary for progress, and the hours spent in the classroom are not nearly enough in order to achieve fluency. This is particularly true for languages which are considered difficult to master, such as Mandarin. In recent years, Mandarin has become one of the most important foreign languages studied in schools throughout the United States of America. Mastering Mandarin challenges students to a great extent, even though many of them choose to study this language. Consequently, many teachers use the ...

Introduction

Metacognition can simply be phrased as “cognition of cognition”. It is the “knowing of one’s knowing” or the process one uses to assess their learning process. The idea of metacognition was first developed by an American psychologist John H. Flavell in 1979. Flavell assessed the human’s ability to manage, store, retrieve and search information within their memory. He concluded that humans are able to use metacognition mode to acquire knowledge on oral skill, reading, mastery, writing, attention, social interaction and education. It can therefore be said that metacognition involves the process of self-awareness and the ability by ...

Early Adulthood Observation paper – Age 19-40

Details of observation and stages of subject  Place: Age: 24 years Gender: Male Developmental stage- Early Adulthood Raphael is a typical young adult who is full of health, vigor and vibrancy and is ready for intimacy, having the ability to relate as he seeks to establish himself independently while relating with others.

Developmental stage description

Raphael falls under Erikson’s love stage, which is a stage that pits intimacy against isolation and is a stage that goes all the way up to the age of 39years. According to Erikson, love is the predominant factor at this stage of the young adult as ...