This video explores how metacognitive skills are acquired, proposing a three-stage skill acquisition model (similar to that of Fitz and Posner, and Anderson) to explain the process. The model focuses on the proceduralization of declarative knowledge into efficient, automatic procedural knowledge.
The video defines proceduralization as the process through practice where declarative knowledge (metacognitive instructions for things like emotional regulation or focus) is converted into procedural knowledge. This procedural knowledge is represented as production rules (if-then statements) that act automatically and efficiently, skipping the need to explicitly retrieve and process the original instructions. This makes the performance faster, more automatic, and less error-prone.
