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Effectively Making Decisions
- 1. What did you do when you woke up this morning?
- 2. Did you brush your teeth? Take a shower?
- 3. Did you eat breakfast ..or get dressed?
- 4. While you were still in bed pushing that snooze button.. Did you think about NOT doing any of those things?
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- 6. Whether or not you did any of these things You made the decision to or not to do so.
- 7. These sorts of decisions may be the easiest decisions you will ever have to make, BUT they will help you for future critical decision making Yes, believe it or not, the decision process for deciding if you should brush your teeth or not is part of the decision process for deciding your future.
- 8. What does being a good decision maker require? Good preparation Sound reasoning Maybe even some luck
- 9. How do we make decisions, what influences our decision making process, and how can we evaluate how effective our decisions are?
- 10. Involuntary Decisions Learned over time and are made out of habit or repetition If you tell a funny story that people actually find funny, you will tell that story again in order to receive that positive feedback once more. However, we should not make too many major decisions involuntarily, especially if we do not know the consequences.
- 11. Voluntary Decisions Much more strenuous Can take more time, be more difficult, and more frustrating BUT this means you are being active within the decision making process. Yay!
- 12. All one needs to watch out for is being influenced by: Credible sources Authority figures Peers Groupthink and interpersonal needs for affection Inclusion and control
- 13. What are these needs that require fulfillment that affect how we critically evaluate our environment?
- 14. Credible Source Someone who might not have special knowledge or insight but they are someone you trust and can go to for help For example: your mom
- 15. Authority Figure Someone you would look to for critical decision making. Such as a police officer: they have a tendency to influence us in making the decision we think that authority figure would want
- 16. Peer Influence When you are influenced to make a decision that matches or would be accepted by people you want to identify with An example would be friends you want to be acquainted with. They are in to doing drugs, so in order to do so you must do drugs along with them in order to be accepted by them.
- 17. Groupthink Type of influence that occurs when you do not make the right decision in order to avoid confrontation or hard feelings and maintain peace and harmony Example would be choosing to NOT tell someone they cannot drive if they have been drinking
- 18. Needs The need for affection: the greatest thing is to love and be loved in return. This can be fulfilled by one person The need for inclusion: a desire to be included and part of something This can be fulfilled by a group The need to be in control: the desire to have power or influence over decision making in a relationship
- 19. To evaluate our decision making: All you must do is focus on the process used in making the decision and the outcome of the decision itself.
- 20. REMEMBER Not all decisions can be made with complete certainty Thus, in order to make a good decision we must always: 1. Ask questions and wonder about them 2. Define the problem 3. consider other interpretations 4. Analyze assumptions 5. Control emotional reasoning 6. tolerate uncertainty 7. DONT over simplify 8.Know the evidence that supports/refutes the argument and its opposition