Pattern matching in decision-making is the mental shortcut where people compare a new situation to past experiences. When cues fit a known template, the brain immediately suggests a familiar judgment or response. This core cognitive process drives intuition, allows experts to act fast under pressure, but can also trigger biases when a current situation only looks like a past one on the surface
Contents1 Is There an Organismic Self?2 Goldstein: The Organism as an Integrated Individual3 Rogers Made an Important Distinction Between the Organism and the Self-Concept4 Rogers’ Incongruence Is Especially Relevant5 Neisser: The Ecological Self Exists Before Read more
This article introduces the idea of intuition and asks if our intuition can both help and mislead us?
This article explains Pavlov's Classical Conditioning, and uses his dog-training analogy to introduce the theory, before explaining the differences when applied to people.
