Decision Making In High School

Decision making is something that we do every day. It’s something that’s so habitual that we don’t even think about it. I know I never really thought about it until reading into how it’s done and what affects our decision. During Memorial Day weekend, I used System 2 decision making. This is a more conscious and logical method than system 1. When I went shopping to get new shoes, my sister told me that Payless had a “buy one get one half off” sale for memorial day weekend. I knew that Payless already had decent prices for shoes and that fact enhanced my decision to go looking for shoes there first. The framing effect had worked on me. Because of their sale I was determined to find a second pair just so I could get that pair half off. I found …show more content…
I don’t have the greatest working memory, but my recall is fairly good. Learning about how kids develop brought me back to the way I was brought up. Social and personality development in children depends partially on biological factors, but the majority of development depends on our environment. This includes peers and family members. Our family provides us with love and aims to shape us into their ideal child. I strongly believe my parents are authoritative parents. They are supportive and show interest in me without overwhelming expectations or pressure. My parents also play a large part of who I have become. They are super religious and have provided me with my core values and beliefs. They’ve been teaching me the difference between right and wrong since before I could remember. They probably went and are going to go through Galinsky’s six stages of parenthood (image-making, nurturing, authority, interpretive, interdependent, and departure stages). Even though nature may have shaped the way I look, nurture is what shaped my personality. Another key factor that has helped shaped me is my peers. They give me confidence and reinforcement to act a certain way that helps me to “fit in”. It’s my friends who shaped my gender