INST 354 Lecture 10: INST354 Lecture 10: Definition of a Decision
10 Feb 2019
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A good image of what we mean by decision making is of a person pausing at a fork in the road, and then choosing one path to reach a desired goal or to avoid an unpleasant outcome. The most important evolutionary situations that selected our basic decision-making capacities probably involved physical approach or avoidance which waterhole, field, fruit tree, cave, stranger, mate, and so forth, to approach and which to avoid. If we took a census of situations that we label decisions in the modern world, it would look quite different from the list of essential decisions in primordial environments. Table 2. 1 is compiled from several surveys of examples of decisions reported by students, retired persons, academic historians, and decision textbook authors (see allison, jordan, & Yeatts, 1992, for a systematic study). (we present these examples exactly as they were stated by the sources without any editorial changes. )
