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Meta-cognition
the cognitive process of observing, monitoring, evaluating, and regulating one's own mental processes and thinking, which operates through two distinct levels: an object level where cognitive processes occur and a meta level that monitors those processes through upward signals and regulates them through downward control
Why This Is a Definition
This definition explicitly names the term 'meta-cognition', states its genus (cognitive process), and provides its differentia (observing, monitoring, evaluating, and regulating one's own mental processes) while also specifying the two functional levels that distinguish it within that category. It directly references Two-Level Metacognitive Architecture which establishes these two levels as functionally distinct.