Thinking is the basis of all cognitive activities or processes and is unique to human beings. It involves the manipulation and analysis of information received from the environment. There are different kinds of thinking styles which include creative, logical, concrete thinking, etc. Metacognition is often referred to as œthinking about thinking. Metacognition is a regulatory System that helps a person understand and control his or her own cognitive performance.Metacognition allows people to take charge of their own learning. sometimes people use the phrase going meta when talking about metacognition, referring to the process of stepping back to see what you are doing as if you were someone else observing it. œGoing meta means becoming an audience of your own performance- in this case, your own intellectual performance.So by all these references, we conclude that metacognition is the ability to think about one's own thinking.Important Points Main characteristics of Metacognitive capabilities:Metacognitive capabilities as a way to access the process and learning. The metacognitive strategies provided teachers with concrete actions and thought processes to reflect upon.Metacognitive strategies include Self-correction as it refers to methods used to help students understand the way they learn; in other words, it means processes designed for students to 'think' about their 'thinking'.It deals with the individual's awareness of the self as a knower and processor of information.Additional InformationMisconception: Misconceptions refer to a wrong or inaccurate idea that takes place due to the mismatch in previously assimilated and newly accommodated knowledge. Accommodation: This happens when the existing schema (knowledge) does not work and needs to be changed to deal with a new object or situation.Concepts maps: Concepts maps include graphical and diagrammatical representations to illustrate the meaningful acquisition of various sub-topics of a concept.