... ties between the connections, and a better organized knowledge structure. When the knowledge structure on a particular topic is large and well-connected network means that any one piece of information can serve to help retrieve the entire pattern. Cognitive psychologists have long held the view that how well information is remembered depends on what is encoded. In particular they have argued that "effort after meaning", leading to the encoding of semantic features, gives rise to better memory. Craik and Lockhart (1972) developed the influential viewpoint known as level or depth of information approach. They proposed that the more deeply information was processed and encoded, the more slowly it was forgotten. Metacognition has become an important focus of cognitive research and it attracted the interest of the research community because it provided exactly the kind of information needed to support an ongoing transformation of learning and memory research. It is the knowledge and ...

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