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Sesi 1 Rational Decision Making
Sesi 1 Rational Decision Making
Current Ideal
condition condition
Current Ideal
condition condition Controlling
Issues:
Issues: 1. Collect and analyze information to set
Framing decision (Context) What alternatives available?
1. What we want to achieve? How to choose the best
2. What criteria of the ideal alternative?
condition? 2. How to implement the best alternative?
3. Are there problems that inhibit the
objective?
Why
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Because
System 1 System 2
(intuitive, automatic) (Reflective, effortful)
Cannot be turn off Cannot be main actor
Process Characteristics
Automatic Controlled
Effortless Effortful
Associative Deductive
Rapid, parallel Slow, serial
Process opaque Self-aware
Skilled action Rule application
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What is intuition?
The process is dominated by
your subconscious mind.
The information is processed in
parallel rather than sequentially.
You are more connected with
your emotions.
How does intuition work?
You may not recall most of the
details of those experiences. And
Your subconscious mind even if you did, it may be very
somehow finds links between your hard to express the lessons you
new situation and various patterns learnt in a form acceptable for
of your past experiences. analytical reasoning. Yet, your
subconscious mind still
remembers the patterns learnt.
2. Representativeness Heuristics
Example
Statistically, travel by air
plane is still saver than
motorcycle
Availability Heuristics (2)
Manager assess the frequency, probability, or likely
causes of an event by the degree to which instances
or occurrences of that event are readily available
in memory
Biases Associated with
Availability Heuristics (1)
1. Ease of recall is not associated with probability
i.e. People believe that motorcycle accidents cause more deaths
than stomach cancer in United Stated. This believes occur
because car accidents get more exposure from media than
stomach cancer
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Decision Making
Descriptive
What people actually do, or have
done
Prescriptive
What people should and can do
Normative
What people should do (in theory)
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Decision
Rational/Ideal/Normative Approaches
Decision Making Actual/Descriptive
Decision Making
GAP
Assumptions:
1. Perfectly define the Bounded
problem Rational
2. Identify all criteria
3. Accurately weigh all
Prescriptive
criteria according to their
preference
Intuition
4. Know all relevant
alternatives Systematic Model
5. Accurately asses each of Decision Process
alternative based on each
criterion Biases
6. Accurately calculate and
choose the alternative
with the highest Guidances to be
perceived value more rational
Not
Optimal Need to
Close to optimal
solution Improve
solution
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Rational Decision Making
Then, based
on the
The rational expected
decision outcomes and
making their weights,
process relies you rate your
mostly on options by
logic and their
quantitative perceived
analysis. utility.