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Which of the common barriers affects your personal decision making processes the most? Discuss how the awareness of these barriers will help you to make better decisions in the future. Provide a detailed explanation of your analysis that demonstrates clear, insightful critical thinking.

Find an example in a reputable periodical of one of the common barriers to critical thinking. How has this barrier prevented resolution of a problem? Provide a detailed explanation of your analysis that demonstrates clear, insightful critical thinking.

Your initial response should be 200 to 300 words in length and include two academic sources that are properly cited.

BARRIERS TO CRITICAL THINKING:

nThe tendency to see reality as centered on oneself.

nSelf-Interested Thinking: supporting conclusions because they are in your interest/to your benefit.

¨Your wants and needs are not objectively more important than anyone else's; they certainly don’t determine truth. Critical thinking is objective.

nSelf-Serving Bias: the tendency to overrate oneself.  

¨Most people think they are above average; most people are thus wrong.

¨Critical thinking requires one to be honest about their abilities.

Sociocentrism

Group centered thinking

nGroup Bias: the tendency to see one’s own group (e.g., nation) as being inherently better than all others.

nConformism: allowing beliefs to be shaped by outside forces such as:

¨Groups (Asch’s “line” experiment)

¨Authority (Mailgram's “shock” experiment)

nUnwarranted Assumptions and Stereotypes

nAssumption: a belief without absolute proof.

nUnwarranted Assumption: a belief without “good reason.”

¨Stereotype: assuming that all people within a group (e.g., sex, race) share all the same qualities; assuming that a particular individual that belongs to a group has certain qualities simply because they belong to that group.

¨Hasty Generalization (type of stereotype): drawing conclusions about a large group from a small sample.

Being aware of an unwarranted assumption does not justify it; but it is the first step in eliminating it.

Explanation / Answer

The most important barrier which affects our personal decision making process is the lack of enough information. We are not able to take the personal decisions as we have a tendency to take the decisionsbased on insufficient information. If we take a decision keeping in mind the entire information pertaining to that decision,we will be in a better state to take the decision.

A person doesnt collect the entire information and switch to decision making quickly,and thus faces the failure. So in order to have proper decision making , the person should collect the entire information appropriately, analyse it and then switch to decision making.

For example, a person wants to hire a cook for cooking. He didnt collect the information of the nearby cooks and their rates and directly hire one cook with insufficient information. It leads to failure as the cook is very expensive and doesnt cook properly. So he has to finally change the cook. If he had gathered the entire information about the cooks in the nearby locality and their rates, feedback about their cooking collected fromhis customers, it would have been a better decision.

References

The top 10 barriers to decision making Available at : https://www.dbtselfhelp.com/Issue10-Top10BarriersToDecisionMaking.pdf

Barriers to decision making Available at : https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-management/chapter/barriers-to-decision-making/

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