For this Psychology Field Journal entry, you will show what you’ve learned about obstacles to decision making, problem solving, and making good judgments by describing real life examples. You may use examples from your life or write about an imaginary situation, but your examples should not be the same ones used in the lesson. Your journal entry should include:
a description of at least one real life problem that has to be solved or decision that has to be made using good judgment, and obstacles encountered while making the decision(s) or solving the problem(s) (Again, these can be real examples or imagined, but they should clearly illustrate your understanding of the obstacles described.)
at least three key terms from the lesson used in your example(s):
belief perseverance
fixation
confirmation bias
functional fixedness
counterproductive heuristics
overconfidence
framing effect
a brief description of how each of the obstacles was overcome, or how each could be overcome in the future
