A Conceptual Literature Review of the Memory, Metacognition and their Association

Abstract

The objective of the study is to gain an understanding of the concept of Metacognition and Memory; and the ways in which it is explained by different researchers. It also aims to explore the relationship between Memory and Metacognition which includes how we monitor our knowledge. Sometimes, our memory system fails to recall the target from it, at that time, metacognitive judgment of Feeling Of Knowing helps the individual to look for target by using different mechanisms namely Trace Access Account and Accessibility Model. Another objective of the study is to consider the impact of Feeling Of Knowing on accuracy of memory performance. An idea about the broad meaning of metacognition was drawn through the consideration of various conceptual definitions given by different researchers. Review was undertaken to comprehend how metacognitive judgments and abilities are understood using memory performance. It was concluded that research is required in the identification of role of contextual information on FOK, to see whether FOK is dependent on the mood of the person at the time of metacognitive judgment and is there any effect of time of encoding on FOK about subject domain information.