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Running head: COMPENSATORY VS NON COMPENSATORY MODELS
Compensatory vs Non Compensatory Models
Comparing Cognitive Applications in Decision Making
Carla Martin
Grand Canyon University
Psychology 583-0500
August 28th 2019
Humans by design are often faced with several decision making tasks based on several

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context, scenarios and environments. These decisions are not always simple and oftentimes risk
and reward are balanced or can outweigh each other. Whether the decision bears heavily on
human factor or not humans are directly affected in any judgement call or decision making. A
major theme that is highlighted throughout the final chapter of Cognition: Theories and
Applications is judgements, decisions and reasoning as it relates to the fact that people often
make mistakes in their performance or process.
According to Goldstein (2018) individuals can be misled by heuristic modellike
representations. The relative suggestion made is that in considering a variety of possible solution
by deductive reasoning, referred to as syllogism, people are brilliant at judging the sustainability
or validity of simple deduction. However there are quite easily misled and influenced by the
cogent of their conclusion (belief bias) instead of how fiercely they support that conclusion for
more compounded ones. Goldstein (2018) further explains that in decision making people can
certainly be impacted by context, emotions and the manner in which choices are being presented
to them even in cases where these distractions or influences have no significant bearing on the
decision to optimize any gains. Goldstein (2018) suggests that the reason for these errors is that
they all have a common denominator.
Dieckmann, Dippold & Dietrich (2009) suggest that decision makers often use a diversity of
decision formats or regulations and heuristics ( an approach to self discovery or problem solving
process which affords practical methods that are not always guaranteed ) to discover the most
suitable choice amid alternatives. Dieckmann, Dippold & Dietrich (2009) also suggest that
decision regulations and formats are often narrated as compensatory or non compensatory.