ABSTRACT
Since the 70s, metacognition has been understood as “knowledge and cognition about cognitive phenomena”. Its conceptualization, despite this, is still unspecific, most researchers tend to neglect the establishment of more precise definitions about metacognition. Thus, a narrative review was carried out, with an intentional bias, oriented towards the production of operational definitions applicable to the learning process, in order to allow to perform the following description actions: discrimination between different metacognitive phenomena, their classification and interpretation of meanings. The taxonomy presented here consists of 03 domains (Skill, Experience and Metacognitive Knowledge), bringing 36 operational definitions of metacognitive terms.
Keywords:
metacognition; definition; cognitive processes