Decision Making Models & Processes
Communications
Decision Types
Communication Barriers
Random Unit 3/4 Vocab
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The model that is used to arrive at decisions without conscious reasoning. The model argues that in a given situation, experts making decisions can scan the environment for cues to recognize patterns

What is the Intuitive Decision Making Model?

100

Paying close attention to what someone is saying and providing feedback to demonstrate understanding

What is Active Listening?

100

Decisions that occur frequently enough that we develop an automated response to them

What is a Programmed Decision?

100

The distortion or withholding of information to manage a person’s reactions.

What is Filtering?

100

(Communications) The art of sharing a story through words, actions, or both, with the goal of conveying a narrative to an audience

What is Storytelling?

200

The generation of new imaginative ideas

What is the Creative Decision Making Process?

200

The act of using words to share ideas, thoughts and emotions with others

What is Verbal Communication?

200

The availability of too much information and too many choices. More time is spent on gathering information and thinking about it, but no decisions actually get made

What is Analysis Paralysis?

200

Occurring when the information processing demands on an individual’s time to perform interactions and internal calculations exceed the supply or capacity of time available for such processing

What is Information Overload?

200

(Decision Making) The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it

What is Hindsight Bias?

300

This model describes a series of steps that decision makers should consider if their goal is to maximize the quality of their outcomes

What is the Rational Decision Making Model?

300

The process of conveying information without using words, such as through body language, facial expressions, gestures or tone of voice

What is Nonverbal Communication?

300

The tendency, in making judgments, to rely on the first piece of information that comes most quickly to mind

What is Anchoring?

300

Filtering what we see and hear to suit our own needs

What is Selective Perception?

300

(Communication) The study of meaning in communication

What are Semantics?

400

This model recognizes the LIMITATIONS of decision-making processes. Individuals knowingly limit their options to a manageable set and choose the best alternative without conducting an exhaustive search for alternatives.

What is the Bounded Rationality Model? 

400

Failure to communicate adequately

What is Miscommunication?

400

Decisions that are unique and important require conscious thinking, information gathering, and careful consideration of alternatives

What are Non Programmed decisions?

400

A lifeline for many employees seeking information about their company (also known as the grapevine)

What is a Workplace Gossip?

400

(Decision Making) People’s subjective confidence in their decision making is greater than their objective accuracy

What is Overconfidence Bias?

500

The act of exchanging information through written words, such as emails, letters or faxes

What is Written Communication?

500

(Decision Making) Making choices among alternative courses of action, including inaction.

What is Decision Making?

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