Metaknowledge may or may not facilitate knowledge and performance.
Metaknowledge may not always facilitate acquisition of knowledge or performance of complex tasks. A pigeon, for example, depending on the task, can report what it is doing even if it cannot perform the task well, and it can fail to report what it is doing when it performs the task well (Shimp 1982; 1983).
Shimp
Charles P
CP
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 charlie.shimp@psych.utah.edu http://www.psych.utah.edu/shimp/shimp.html.