M35 Module Solving Problems and Making Decisions

Learning Targets

35-1 Describe the cognitive strategies that assist our problem solving and the obstacles that hinder it.

35-2 Discuss the meaning of intuition, and describe how the availability and representativeness heuristics influence our decisions and judgments.

35-3 Discuss the factors that exaggerate our fear of unlikely events.

35-4 Describe how our decisions and judgments are affected by overconfidence, belief perseverance, and framing.

35-5 Discuss how smart thinkers use intuition.