Somatic Markers
People often base decisions on how they feel, snap judgments, impulses, or intuition. It is certainly faster and easier than analysis, investigation, and deliberation.The somatic-marker theory was proposed by Antonio Damasio.
To what extent fo you agree that making quick judgements based on knowledge and intuition is a valid method of decision making?
Is intuition a useful way of knowing?
Okay, we do all know that it is true that we make snap judgements, everybody has done it at some point and will do it again in the future, although I do it myself I dont consider it the best option to decision making, "Dont judge a book by its cover" is usually always your or other peoples response to a snap decision or judgement gone wrong. However with intuition, i think on the odd occasion we can learn from this, without the use of rational processes, if lost for example you could look at a street thinking it is familiar and it could turn out that its an alternate root home (a semi-useful way of knowing).I dont advise anyone to react on impulses,more than half the time this is simply not the right thing to do, someone pushes you and your quick thinking (i dont know if this is just me) is to push them back, yet i dont do so because i know it is morally wrong. Quick judgements made based on knowledge however i think are useful,sometimes. You could have a glass or water and a glass of lemonade infront of you and using your knowledge you could differ the two in less than 3 seconds. Therefore this is the extend i believe the two methods of decision making useful.
ReplyDeletePersonally I think quick judgement are sometimes the best for example if you make a quick judgement it might not be the best but it might benifit you in a good way the only decision I think that needs thinking about propley are things like buying a house and things like that. But people make drastic decisions my judging people straigh away but is not always a good thing because even thought people might look different they might be the most loveliest person ever. So in my opinion I think that people mainnly take quick decisions the most of like the decision of going out or staying in? having a drink or water to having a drink of coke
ReplyDeleteI think it is always reasonable to give situations benefit of doubt ,this gives you instinct a better position or platform to elicit better judgement and response, of course there are certain situations that demand instant judging but in such cases i think our judgements are based on experiences and to some extent our knowledge and perceptions of society in regards to our intuitive minds ,it is an valid and direct source that helps us live our lives but we have created a source or based our judgements on what society proclaims with analysing and deliberately evaluating things.
ReplyDeleteAs Albert Einstein said ''The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
In my opinion, I find that if I make impulsive decision I tend not to regret it. I doesn't, in my opinion effect my judgement. I find that on most occasions when I have an impulsive decision it tend to be the right/smart move in a way. I find that if I over analysis something I tend to have more doubt over should I then do it or not. I think that making quick judgements based on knowledge and institution is in most cases the best for me.
ReplyDeleteI think that institution is a valid way of learning for me because i like to make decisions quickly.
Making quick judgement about someone or something is not a good idea. We should first analyse and study before we make a final judgement. Although one may have acquired knowledge one may be prompt to make a mistake as things may seem to be the way they are. For example one may find a well-recognized type of food like fish and chips eaten by most of the people because it has been judged to be the tasty whilst if you are given a snail to eat you wouldn't dare to try it,even though it's delicacy. A person would have already judged that it's a slimy disgusting creature from the knowledge they would have attained about the creature. Intuition on the other hand is not a wise option of decision making. Decisions are made in a flash and they will be out of emotions.
ReplyDeletei am bad for doing a quick judgement s about people or things. since i started doing tok i started thinking things through a bit more. since then it has helped me alot. such as food you dont know if you like it until you try it even if it really smells or looks horrible it can always be tried. with peole im slightly different i try to ignore what people have said about the person or whatever and wait till there is signs of them being like this. i oftin judge people by there shoes :S dont know why!
ReplyDeleteTo what extent fo you agree that making quick judgements based on knowledge and intuition is a valid method of decision making?
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion i do not agree with this. I think using this method will mostly result in making a wrong decision as you need to think things through first before making a definate choice. First of all i think you should analyse and discuss the issue with someone else to get their opinion.
For example if you make a quick judgement about a person you have never met before by looking at their clothes and appearence then you might be completely and utterly wrong. Like if you saw a man walking down the street in a smart suit, shoes and brief case then you would immediately assume that he is a business man or has a good job even though you dont know nothing about him.
Making snap judgements on people is a natural thing for human beings. Though we know that a person you've only just met is as complicated and 'many-layered' as us, we automatically have to have first impressions, or 'starting impressions' if you will. In a situation where you meet someone for the first time, they're obviously not going to be completely comfortable, because they don't know you either. We all try to make good first impressions on people, and unfortunately that sometimes means we don't relax and act as our true selves, which (as I'm sure everyone has experienced) doesn't always go well.
ReplyDeleteSnap judgements are part of human nature, and 99% of the time, inaccurate. But we must make these judgements to start off, because how else would we get a full picture of a person's true colours? Yes, maybe sometimes we don't think about things enough and jump to conclusions, but in my experience, opinions of people change all the time. We just have to understand that everyone is human, will make mistakes and can always make up for them.
I think making quick judgments is something we all do, but often they're wrong and we later learn that what we initally thought wasn't the case, but they form the basis of our later judgements.
ReplyDeleteBut it shows alot about our personality, because quick judgements will vary between different people, therefore showing different personalities
i think in the sense of making snap judgements in times of urgency is quite effective because the flight or fight response prevents us from having that period of time when we ponder on our decisions and end up over thinking things. which is why we often go awry in most cases. in the sense of making judgements about people, situations etc...i dont think intuition and snap judgements is very effective, because 90% of the time, the judgements i make about people based on their appearance or speech (things that my semantic field has linked to specific attributes and qualities) tend to be wrong.
ReplyDeletePeople's feelings and first judgements often portays their true thoughts on a matter and so in my opinion i think its safe to trust first judgements; if it is an important matter then feelings or first judgements might be be very unreliable as somethings require deep thoughts. in terms of intuition being a useful way of knowing:i think positve on the matter because there has been times when i have had a strong intuition to go in a direction but go against my instinct and in the end up regret it. so i believe that although this form of knowledge might not be a greatly reliable one, it is still useful and effective to an extent.
ReplyDeleteMaking decisions on how we feel and judging can be a bad idea as most of the time people first thoughts and judgements about certain things are oftern wrong or bad. I know this as I have done this in the past and I'm obviously not the only one who has and as a result I have regretted the decisions and judgements that I have made. Although is is faster and easier than analysis I believe that it is not worth jumping to conclusions without analysisng. People may also say by making judgements faster you learn that initial thoughts can often be wrong!
ReplyDeletemaking a quick judgement is a very bad ideal because, their are some decision/judgement we make without thinking that will later affect us in life and also when making or taking a decisions/judgement, we have to think on how other people will feel about what we are about to do and thier feelings and how we can benefit from that decision without hurting others.in my own way, it is totally wrong to give a snap judgement/decision on something without analysing it.
ReplyDeleteMaking quick judgements is a way of reasurring ourselves as humans in some way which could be a defence mechanism which is probably innate in us as humans as a method of protecting ourselves from not knowing which isn't the most intelligent thing to do.
ReplyDeletebut in my opinion i think making quick judgements about people is good because there's a 50% chance you'll be right and a 50% chance that you will be wrong and at the end its not always the truth about the person or object.
And as you get to know the person they begin to change your mind about them
Quick judgements can also run along be the same as first impressions which in my case can be very important because it completely changes the way you thought about the person or not in some cases.
and in some way intuition is the perceiving of truth of something immediately without reasoning or analysing something which is a primary way of knowing.
depending on the decision you are making changes the way you would go about making the decision. basicly if your picking a new bike you get knowledge on how good it is before you buy it where as if you are picking numbers for a lottery you just pick any old numbers that jump out at you their for being a quick decision! weaither you win or not is look but the same principle of picking at random to save time works.
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