metacognition

n. awareness of one’s own cognitive processes, often involving a conscious attempt to control them. The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, in which one struggles to retrieve something that one knows one knows, provides an interesting and common example of metacognition. —metacognitive adj.

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January 30th 2025

exhaustive

adj. complete or all encompassing. For example, a set of 13 hearts, 13 spades, 13 diamonds, 13 clubs, and two jokers forms an exhaustive set of all possible playing cards that could be drawn.