Three of the Following Students Are Using Metacognitive Strategies While

question 41

Multiple Choice

Three of the following students are using metacognitive strategies while reading. Which one is not necessarily using a metacognitive strategy?

• A) Darnell always thinks about what he wants to learn from a textbook before he begins to read it.
• B) Josie likes to guess what an author will say before she starts reading; she continues to revise her guesses as she goes along.
• C) Pablo prefers to read out loud so he can hear what the words sound like.
• D) Keiko ignores parts of the text that don't relate to her purpose for reading.

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Definitions:

Cognitive Dissonance

A psychological phenomenon where an individual experiences discomfort due to conflicting beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors.

Coaction Effects

The impact on performance of the presence of other people engaged in the same task.

Source Confusion

Source Confusion is a memory error where individuals are unable to recall the true source of a memory, leading to misattribution of the information's origin.

Cognitive

Pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes.