1. COGNITION: It is the power or mental capacity to process
information is reached, which implies the knowledge
acquired through the exercise of these mental faculties
and subjective features to assess and consider certain
aspects.
It also relates to the abstract aspects like mind, defined as
intellectual faculty, acting within the framework of
thought, memory, imagination and will, in addition to the
perception, reasoning, intelligence and learning.
Cognitive and Metacognitive
Strategies

2. Cognitive Skills
ATTENTION: Exploration, fragmentation, and
contradistractoras selection.
UNDERSTANDING: Capturing ideas, underline,
translation into its own language and abstract graphics,
networks, diagrams and concept maps
PREPARATION: Questions, metaphors and analogies,
organizers and notes
MEMORY / RECOVERY: Coding and response
generation.

3. Three aspects of the activity:
PEOPLE:(knowing you better remember the words than
numbers)
TASK :(namely the organization of a text facilitates or
hinders learning content)
STRATEGIES:(knowing that the realization of a is a
conceptual diagram that facilitates understanding
procedure
Metacognitive Knowledge

5. It is our ability to regulate our learning, that planning and
implementing strategies to control the process and to find
possible failures.
SKILLS METACOGNITIVE: They are the facilitators of the
quantity and quality of knowledge we have, control,
direction, and their application to problem solving tasks and
are classified as:
Metacognition

6. PLANNING : It involves the selection of appropriate
strategies and use of resources for execution.
CONTROL: Check the result of the strategies
implemented, review their effectiveness, make an
assessment of what we are understanding, learning or
retrieving information.
EVALUATION: Refers to regulatory resources and the
results of our learning and understanding.
MONITORING: Monitoring and assessment of the
effectiveness of the strategy used or modification of the
process in relation to the results obtained.