QUESTION 9

QUESTION 12

Making decision is a very tough and risky job to be done by the decision
maker. Either the decision done is right, and wrong, will cause the results for the
future. A decision maker who make a decision use the historical data, based on past
trend and stereotype is called anchoring trap. There are five ways can let you avoid
anchor influence. Using the different perspective to view a problem. Thinking about
the problem on your own before discussing with others. Open mind, absorbing the
information from various ways. Be particularly wary of anchors in negotiation. The
status-quo trap talks about managers are accustomed to think that their own
decisions are rational and objective, in fact, even if those look objective and
rational decision-making is also affected by the psychological tendency. The
presence of the trap from the depths of our hearts a desire for self-protection,
protection from trauma instinct reaction. Undermine the existing presence of
innovative means to take action, and the actions you have to take responsibility,
face defeat and reprehensible risk, and therefore need to bear the psychological
burden. Five ways to avoid it. To know your goal how it served by status quo. Dont
make your status quo become your alternative. Ask yourself you would choose the
instead of status quo alternative, in fact, it werent the status quo.
From this article the best protection against all psychological traps in isolation
or in combination is awareness. Even if you cant eradicate the distortions ingrained
into the way your mind works, you can build tests and disciplines into your decision
making process that can uncover errors in thinking before they become errors in
judgement. Besides that taking an action to understand and avoid psychological
traps can have the added benefit of increasing your confidence in the choices you
make.
In decision making, we need to check whether we are examining all the
evidence with equal rigor. We also can avoid the tendency to accept confirming
evidence without question. In decision making, we must honest with ourself to help
us make a smart choice and right decision.
This article also can help in town planning field which is the planner suppose
to make a right decision in any development that they carried out to avoid big
problem to the people. As a town planner right decision about the development
must come with a research to know the impact after the development of the area.
A right decision can help a planner make a good development and keep success in
their career in future.
With respect to town planning, either the decision is good and bad, it will ruin
the company and even for the career itself. In the article, bad decision have been
said came from distortions and biases, mostly. The whole series of mental flaws that
sabotage the reasoning. In planning field, we need to avoid and cannot get rid with
those psychological traps because this will cause unconscious and hardwired into
the way in the box. Thus, we can learn to be aware and always alert to these kind of
peoples, monitored well the decision making so that our thinking traps do not cause
judgement disaster.