How Perception Affects In Decision Making

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Submitted by dduenez on September 2, 2010

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How Perception Affects In Decision Making

Abstract
You don’t need to study human decision-making to predict that experts will outperform
novices in tasks related to their domain of expertise. Through both laboratory-based
study and watching people perform tasks in real-life scenarios, researchers have learned
that extensive knowledge, built through experience, is the primary differentiator between
an expert and a novice. But do experts perceive situations and problems differently than
do novices? This paper will argue that experts’ vast stores of knowledge provide them
with a two-fold advantage over novices. First, chunks act as pre-compiled perceptual
elements...

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