This report focuses on the development of general problem-solving skills which are subsumed under the general heading of metacognition: in particular, the skills of predicting, checking, monitoring, reality testing, and coordinating and controlling deliberate attempts to learn or solve problems. The report is organized in five sections: an introduction, a discussion of the term metacognition, a relatively long review of the literature (focusing particularly on results from the author's laboratory), a discussion of the types of questions being addressed in current research programs devoted to metamnemonic development, and a discussion of the cultural relativity of many of the traditional memory skills. (AA)