Intelligent Systems
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Promoting metacognitive learning through systematic reflection

2021

Conference Paper

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People are able to learn clever cognitive strategies through trial and error from small amounts of experience. This is facilitated by people's ability to reflect on their own thinking which is known as metacognition. To examine the effects of deliberate systematic metacognitive reflection on how people learn how to plan, the experimental group was guided to systematically reflect on their decision-making process after every third decision. We found that participants assisted by reflection prompts learned to plan better faster. Moreover, we found that reflection led to immediate improvements in the participants' planning strategies. Our preliminary results do suggest that deliberate metacognitive reflection can help people discover clever cognitive strategies from very small amounts of experience. Understanding the role of reflection in human learning is a promising approach for making reinforcement learning more sample efficient in both humans and machines.

Author(s): Frederic Becker and Falk Lieder
Book Title: Workshop on Metacognition in the Age of AI. Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Year: 2021
Month: December
Day: 7-10
Department(s): Rationality Enhancement
Research Project(s): Metacognitive Learning
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (conference)
Paper Type: Conference
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.24598.88642
Event Name: Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Event Place: Virtual (originally Montreal, Canada)
Language: English
State: Accepted
URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355481637_Promoting_metacognitive_learning_through_systematic_reflection

BibTex 

@conference{Becker2021Promoting,
  title = {Promoting metacognitive learning through systematic reflection},
  author = {Becker, Frederic and Lieder, Falk},
  booktitle = {Workshop on Metacognition in the Age of AI. Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
  month = dec,
  year = {2021},
  doi = {10.13140/RG.2.2.24598.88642},
  url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355481637_Promoting_metacognitive_learning_through_systematic_reflection},
  month_numeric = {12}
}