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Metacognition Vs Self Deception !!! Really Powerful Stuff

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I was just reading some positive psychology and I came across the term "Metacognition" .-(knowing about knowing) . Amazing concepts!!!!

•Declarative knowledge ; wich is understanding one's own capability 

•Procedural knowledge ; understanding the difficulty of a task 

•Conditional knowledge; how to use strategies to learn information 

So basically metacognition is a general term of study of memory-monitoring self-regulatory and reasoning in order to maximise one’s potential. 

Self-regulation theory is a system of conscious personal management that involves guiding one's own thoughts , behaviour, and feeling to reach goals. 

Sounds great except thereis one problem 

•Illusion of control , is the tendency that individuals have to overestimate their ability to control events. ( Notice it might be also the opposite)

I love this one :

" Individuals are driven by internal goals/agendas concerned with the exercise of control over their environment , they will seek to reassert control in conditions of chaos , uncertainty or stress. One way of coping with a lack of real control is to falsely attribute oneself control of the situation." 

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