What's the difference between cognitive strategies and meta-cognitive strategies? Cognitive strategies are that people use to manage the way of thinking, to ensure that the process of self-learning. Metacognition is the awareness of awareness, the essence is of human self-monitoring. Metacognitive and cognitive belong to human cognition and thinking activities, the main difference between the two in the following areas: (1)Understand and object of thinking are different The object of cognitive activities is an external and specific,and the object of meta- cognition is internal, abstract, and is ongoing of subject itself . (2) The content of activities are different The content of cognitive activities is some kind of intelligence operation of cognitive object, and the content of metacognitive activities is regulation and monitoring of cognitive activities. (3) The mode of action is different Cognitive activities can directly make the cognitive object get the progress of cognitive activi