Decision Making
is the cognitive process of selecting a course of action from among multiple alternatives.Every decision-making 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 assumptions or tacit
assumptions.
Common
examples include shopping, deciding what to eat, and deciding whom or what to vote for in an election or referendum
Decision
Making is said to be a psychological construct. This means that although we can never "see" a decision, we can infer from
observable behaviour that a decision has been made. Therefore we conclude that a psychological event that we call "decision
making" has occurred. It is a construction that imputes commitment to action. That is, based on observable actions, we assume
that people have made a commitment to effect the action.
