Question:
Describe a decision-making scenario using your personal decision making; include an
example of the decision-making process, describe the risk, and whether persuasion was
used.
What were the social heuristics?
Explain the incentives in this scenario. Were they effective?
Identify the risks and the potential decision biases in your scenario. Propose the corrective
steps that should have been taken to overcome these biases.
Explain how decisions were made and the social factors that shaped the decision-making
environment.
Discuss the greatest challenges to sound decision-making in your scenario.
Identify the mistakes made by the sponsor(s), leader(s), and team members or others
impacted by the decision during the implementation of the decision.
Answer:
To best understand the intricate process of decision making and decision making skills, we
must first note a very vital difference between problem solving and decision making as
they are inadvertently closely related while also being specifically utilized in different
manners on a consistent basis. To begin, we know that problem solving skills are best
applied to daily issues such as forming a list of things that should be done, prioritizing, or
adhering to time constraints in an effort to evade disastrous results. Decision making skills
are all an interwoven part of the problem solving process but are able to stand out on its
own; many of us are faced with the subliminal fork in the road scenario in which one way
can lead to a very different outcome than the other.
Describe a decision-making scenario using your personal decision making; include an
example of the decision-making process, describe the risk, and whether persuasion
was used.
With a multitude of scenarios in which can be presented to best represent personal decision
making skills, the most significant scenario that sticks out in my mind would be similar to
all as it relates to teenage, rebellious years that are seemingly drowned in a pool of
societal, family, self and peer pressures, persuasions, and risks.
As an adolescent, high school years especially, there seems to be an initial decision that
needs to be made of who we want to be; “nerd” or “jock”. With the unfortunate rarity of
there being both an athlete and an exceptional student on account of popularity issues,
therein lays the need to make a decision of which is most important. For many of us, the
inherent need to feel accepted and a part of a group is a very resilient pressure that can
