In this study, Flavell explores the development of memory and initiates the study of metacognition based on the term metamemory: 'What, then, is memory development the development of? It seems in large part to be the development of intelligent structuring and storage of input, of intelligent search and retrieval operations, and of intelligent monitoring and knowledge of these storage and retrieval operations- a kind of 'metamemory', perhaps. Such is the nature of memory development.' (p. 277.)
