DECISION MAKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decision making mean? 

• DECISION MAKING (noun)
  The noun DECISION MAKING has 1 sense:

1. the cognitive process of reaching a decision

  Familiarity information: DECISION MAKING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECISION MAKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cognitive process of reaching a decision

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

deciding; decision making

Context example:

a good executive must be good at decision making

Hypernyms ("decision making" is a kind of...):

higher cognitive process (cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "decision making"):

officiating; officiation; refereeing; umpirage (the act of umpiring)

determination (deciding or controlling something's outcome or nature)

eclectic method; eclecticism (making decisions on the basis of what seems best instead of following some single doctrine or style)

groupthink (decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility))

closure; resolution; settlement (something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making)

judgement; judging; judgment (the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions)

change of mind; flip-flop; reversal; turnabout; turnaround (a decision to reverse an earlier decision)

choice; pick; selection (the person or thing chosen or selected)

cull; reject (the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality)

alternative; choice; option (one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen)

 Context examples 

The models they create help guide future cancer control strategies, research priorities, policies, and decision making.

(Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network, NCI Dictionary)

The prefrontal cortex area of the brain oversees important functions such as judgment, decision making, and problem solving, as well as emotional control and memory.

(How the brain pays attention to faces and places, NIH)

Efforts by doctors and other care givers to give patients the resources they need to manage their own care and make them active participants in the decision making process.

(Patient-Centered Medicine, NCI Thesaurus)

In a healthcare context, empathy refers to care that incorporates understanding of the patient perspective, shared decision making between patient and practitioner, and consideration of the broader context in which illness is experienced.

(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)

The depth of knowledge and competence in advanced clinical practice and diabetes skills affords an increased complexity of decision making, which expands the traditional discipline specific practice.

(Diabetes Management Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)

“In heavy drinkers, we saw less regional power for example in the thalamus, the sensory gateway, and frontal cortex of the brain, which is important for decision making,” said Dr. Shokri-Kojori of the NIAAA Laboratory of Neuroimaging.

(Study of brain energy patterns provides new insights into alcohol effects, National Institutes of Health)

Previous studies have linked being overweight with scoring lower on various measures of executive function, an umbrella term for several functions such as self-control, decision making, working memory (temporarily holding information for processing) and response to rewards.

(Childhood obesity linked to structural differences in key brain regions, University of Cambridge)