Regulation of Cognition

Regulation of cognition, according to Schmitt and Newby, is accomplished by planning, monitoring, and revising.

•  Planning involves the selection of relevant strategies.

•  Monitoring involves "checking and evaluating to determine whether the task matches preconceived notions about it, whether selected strategies are working, whether task performance is adequate, or whether comprehension is proceeding as it should."

•  Revision of strategy use occurs when through monitoring your thoughts, you realize something is not going well. Additional strategies can be used to augment the originally chosen strategy, the original strategy could be modified, or a new strategy can be selected.