The Ability to Reflect on Your Own Thinking and to Be

question 175

Multiple Choice

The ability to reflect on your own thinking and to be aware of the process of thought as it impacts you is __________

• A) attention.
• B) metamemory.
• C) intelligence.
• D) metacognition.

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Definitions:

Months of Age

A measurement of time used to specify how old someone or something is in months, often applied to infants and young children.

Piaget

Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget is known for his theory on the cognitive development of children, identifying stages of mental growth from infancy to adolescence.

Deferred Imitation

The ability to observe an action and replicate it later, even without the immediate presence of the original stimulus or model.

Echolalia

The automatic repetition of sounds or words.