The Hidden Traps in Decision Making

Description

Mind Map on The Hidden Traps in Decision Making, created by hazel.crawford on 02/06/2013.
hazel.crawford
Mind Map by hazel.crawford, updated more than 1 year ago
hazel.crawford
Created by hazel.crawford almost 11 years ago
126
0

Resource summary

The Hidden Traps in Decision Making
  1. The anchoring trap
    1. Leads us to give disproportionate weight to the first information we receive
    2. The status quo trap
      1. Biases towards maiintaining the existing situation even when better alternatives exist
      2. The sunk-cost trap
        1. Inclines us to perpetuate the mistakes of the past
        2. The confirming-evidence trap
          1. Leads us to seek out information supporting an existing prediliction and to discount opposing information
          2. The framing trap
            1. Occurs when we mis-state a problem, undermining the entire decision making process
            2. the overconfidence trap
              1. Makes us overestimate the accuracy of our forecasts
              2. The prudence trap
                1. Leads us to be over-cautios when we make estimates about uncertain events
                2. The recallability trap
                  1. Leads us to give undue weight to recent, dramatic events.
                  Show full summary Hide full summary

                  Similar

                  Glossary of Accounting Terms
                  racheloucks
                  SAT Math Sample Questions
                  SAT Prep Group
                  Models For Explaining Human Memory
                  Matthew Li
                  Biology F212 - Biological molecules 1
                  scarlettcain97
                  TYPES OF DATA
                  Elliot O'Leary
                  Plot in 'An Inspector Calls' GCSE
                  magicalinsanity
                  GCSE Computing: Hardware
                  Yasmin F
                  Compensation and Benefits PHR Study Guide
                  Cari Hawthorne
                  OCR gcse computer science
                  Jodie Awthinre
                  Grammar Rules
                  Sandra Yeadon
                  SFDC App Builder 1 (176-200ish)
                  Connie Woolard