The Influence Of The Decision-Making Process

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Decision-making is a cognitive process that results choosing one of the alternative options. When we think logically, we exclude emotions and use only rational method of selecting the best choice that achieves the best possible outcome and consequences. In our daily life, we take many decisions and many changes over it. So, the question is; what factors influence the decision making process? According to the article, frontal cortex is the part of the brain that responsible for decision making, the researchers assume that human reasoning and decision making depends on many levels of cognitive operations which depends on many support processes as emotions, attention and working memory. The reasoning process is also depends on the knowledge about the situation and options for actions.
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Initiative supporters trying to benefit from classical conditioning theory principals by making sure that Yonkers people and police officers associate positive emotional feelings with their experience dealing with each other. The first step in the process of modeling a new behavior is observation of the desirable behavior to follow and this what Yorkens’s people did when met a police officer in the street. The positive reinforcement motivated them to perform the new behavior again and again. Mueller was making retention of mental model for the behavior to be learned by describing the desired behavior “The first step is the stop, then the shake, and then it 's a conversation …”, that’s why practicing the new skills was important for good organization and making it familiar and meaningful for

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