Making judgements and decisions

Title
Making judgements and decisions
Publication Date
2008
Author(s)
Cooksey, Ray Wagner
Editor
Editor(s): James A Athanasou
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Sense Publishers
Place of publication
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Edition
2
UNE publication id
une:5898
Abstract
Adults are continually confronted with the task of making decisions and rendering judgements in their everyday as well as working lives. It could be argued that judgement and decision making constitutes the major portion of an adult's cognitive activity while awake. A decision involves the making of a specific choice and frequently has an action or implementation aspect to it. A judgement is a cognitive assessment that has an evaluative aspect to it (like/dislike, goodlbad, or strong/weak) but not necessarily an action or implementation aspect. Thus, a court magistrate may judge a defendant to be guilty of the crime of breaking and entering and then decide to sentence the defendant to two years in prison.
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Citation
Adult Educational Psychology, p. 319-350
ISBN
9789087905538
9789087905552
9789087905545
Start page
319
End page
350

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