Critical thinking

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Full Title of Your Paper

Learner's Full Name

School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Capella University

PSYC3501: Cognitive Psychology in Action

Instructor Name

Month Year

Personal Learning Analysis

In the first section of this paper, type the introduction to the topic. A good introduction provides a brief overview of the main topic and highlights the main points that you will be making in the paper. The headings for the assignment have been preset for you; however, you can adjust to your preference. Once you type your introduction, delete these instructions.

Metacognition

In this section, discuss your metacognition. Analyze your skills in specific areas of metacognition; this includes carefully explaining and interpreting your own metacognitive skills. Support your thinking with professional and scholarly sources. Delete these instructions.

Optimal Challenge and Performance

In this section, discuss the role of optimal challenge in your academic performance. Analyze your approach to optimal challenge and performance; this includes carefully explaining and interpreting your approach to optimal challenge and performance. Support your thinking with professional and scholarly sources. Delete these instructions.

Motivation and Procrastination

In this section, discuss the roles of procrastination and motivation in your academic performance. Analyze your own procrastination and motivation; this includes carefully explaining and interpreting your own levels of procrastination and motivation. Support your thinking with professional and scholarly sources. Delete these instructions.

Areas of Strength and Opportunities for Growth

In this section, describe your areas of strength and areas of opportunity for growth in learning. Delete these instructions.

Plan for Growth

In this section, explain your plan to strengthen an area of growth in your learning. Delete these instructions.

Summary and Conclusion

In this section, revisit your main points and come to concluding remarks. Place references on the next page. Your paper should now be somewhere around 5–7 pages of content (not counting the title page and references page). Remove these instructions.

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Using the Personal Learning Analysis Template [DOCX] Download Personal Learning Analysis Template [DOCX], write a 5–7 page paper that addresses your learning processes in the following areas:

Metacognition.

Optimal challenge and performance.

Motivation and procrastination.

In your paper, do the following:

Analyze your skills in specific areas of metacognition, supporting your thinking with information from professional and scholarly sources.

Analyze the role of optimal challenge in your academic performance, supporting your thinking with information from professional and scholarly sources.

Analyze the role of motivation and procrastination in your academic performance, supporting your thinking with information from professional and scholarly sources.

Describe your areas of strength and areas for growth in learning.

Describe your strengths in one or two paragraphs.

Describe your areas for growth in at least one fully developed paragraph.

Choose one of your areas of growth and create a plan to strengthen this area. Identify some strategies and steps that you'll take to continue to build this area of skill. Support your strategies with information from professional or scholarly sources.

Additional Requirements

Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:

Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.

Check your spelling and grammar. Visit the Writing Center's Microsoft EditorLinks to an external site. page for tips on using Microsoft Editor to support your writing.

Please feel free to write in first person (I, me, et cetera).

Sources: Use a minimum of four resources. Sources can be a combination of course resources, professional sources (such as a textbook), and peer-reviewed scholarly articles (no more than eight years old).

Note on the scoring rubric that to reach distinguished scoring, you will need to apply information from professional scholarly journals to support your analysis.

APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA style and formatting guidelines. Refer to Evidence and APALinks to an external site. page on Campus for guidance.

Use in-text citations throughout your work and provide full references at the end of your paper.

Template: Use the Personal Learning Analysis Template [DOCX] Download Personal Learning Analysis Template [DOCX]for your paper.

Length: 5–7 typed, double-spaced pages of content in addition to a title page and references page.

Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.