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What Is Decision Making

Decision making involves selecting a course of action from multiple alternatives to sufficiently reduce uncertainty. It is a cognitive process that can be rational or irrational, and is based on the decision maker's values and preferences. There are different types of decision making, including cognitive decision making which requires reasoning, behavioral decision making based on motives, decisions concerning personal life affected by one's status, and ethical decision making governed by principles like autonomy, non-malfeasance, beneficence, justice, fidelity, and veracity.

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What Is Decision Making

Decision making involves selecting a course of action from multiple alternatives to sufficiently reduce uncertainty. It is a cognitive process that can be rational or irrational, and is based on the decision maker's values and preferences. There are different types of decision making, including cognitive decision making which requires reasoning, behavioral decision making based on motives, decisions concerning personal life affected by one's status, and ethical decision making governed by principles like autonomy, non-malfeasance, beneficence, justice, fidelity, and veracity.

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What is Decision Making?

1. Decision making is the cognitive process of selecting a course of action from among
multiple alternatives. Every decision-making process produces a final choice. It can be
an action or an opinion. It begins when we need to do something but we do not know
what. Therefore decision-making is a reasoning process which can be rational or
irrational, and can be based on explicit or tacit assumptions.
2. Decision making is the study of identifying and choosing alternatives based on the
values and preferences of the decision maker.
3. Decision making is the process of sufficiently reducing uncertainty and doubt about
alternatives to allow a reasonable choice to be made from among them.

KINDS OF DECISION MAKING:

1. Cognitive Decision Making - It is characterized by the necessity of a choice which


requires a reasoning/inference capacity of the subject with the use of
intelligence/knowledge-based. 
2. Behavioral Decision Making – is based on motives. There is always a motivation
force generated by some causes and purposes that can tell why a person makes a
particular decision. Also relates to manner, values and beliefs of the person making
the decision.
3. Decisions Concerning Personal Life – this are decisions that are affected mainly by
the personal status or position in life of a particular person having the decision.
4. Ethical Decision Making – decisions that are governed by ethical principles.
 Autonomy – being independent/self-governed, free from deceit, duress,
constraint or coercion, and they are to be an informed participant in making
those decisions.
 Non-malfeasance - means one should never do any harm or inflict damage
to another.
 Beneficence - describes the principle of doing good; as much good as
possible to benefit another.
 Justice - addresses the concepts of fairness and entitlement.
 Fidelity - is a strong concept referring to loyalty and trust, going beyond just
being true to one’s word.
 Veracity - refers to the comprehensive, accurate and objective
communication of information, and binds the practitioner and patient in an
association of truth.

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