Metacognition and Problem Solving Crossword

This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Psychology & Sociology has 21 clues. Answers range from 3 to 25 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.

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Including Attention, Rehearsal, Organization, Imagery, and Elaboration.  These executive control processes are sometimes called metacognitive skills, because they can be intentionally used to regulate cognition.
“Knowledge or awareness of self as knower.”
Something teachers can use to guide reading and inquiry
A special kind of procedural knowledge-knowing how to do something. Ex: summaries, underlining and highlighting, and taking notes.
Graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge and relationships within a particular field or on a given topic.
A way for students to process what they have read.
Another way for students to comprehend what they are reading.
A strategy to help students learn how to identify, organize, define and remember words, which increases their ownership of their learning.
Formulating new answers and going beyond the simple application of previously learned rules to achieve a goal.
Step by step prescription for achieving a goal.
A general strategy that might lead to the right answer.
Dividing the problem into a number of immediate goals (subgoals), and then a means for solving each subgoal is found.
Heuristic in which you start at the goal and move backward to the unsolved initial problem.
Heuristic in which one limits the search for solutions to situations that are similar to the one at hand.
Putting your problem solving-plan and its logic into words.
Inability to use objects or tools in a new way.
Rigidity; the tendency to respond in the most familiar way.
Judging the likelihood of an event based on how well the events match your prototype--what you think is representative of the category.
Judging the likelihood of an event based on what's available in your memory, assuming those easily remembered events are common.
The tendency to hold onto beliefs, even in the face of contradictory evidence.
The tendency to search for information that confirms our ideas and beliefs.

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