Metacognition is usually defined as knowledge and cognition about cognitive objects, that is, about anything cognitive. However, the concept could reasonably be broadened to include anything psychological, rather than just anything cognitive. For instance, if one has knowledge or cognition about one’s own or someone else’s emotions or motives, it could be considered metacognitive. Any kind of monitoring might also be considered a form of metacognition; for example, attempts to monitor one’s own motor activity in a motor skill situation. It is very difficult to rule out the conscious monitoring of motor acts as being something entirely different from what is ordinarily understood to be metacognition. Because some metacognitive knowledge and cognitive self-regulatory activity is not very accessible to consciousness, researchers may eventually feel compelled to include processes that are not conscious and perhaps not even accessible to consciousness as forms of metacognition or metacognitive-like phenomena.
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