Brain Decision Making

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Many different decisions are in everyone's future and with a brain these decision can make it harder or easier. Your brain has many different aspects, but the main areas in decision making are self fulfilling prophecies, the cerebellum, extrinsic and intrinsic motivation and availability heuristic. The following are related to decision making and whether or not Ryan should go to FSU or MIT. The self fulfilling prophecy interferes with the choice of what college you want to go to because if you say you are going to a certain college you are more likely to got there. A self fulfilling prophecy is when you predict something and it happens, an example is saying "today will be a bad day" the outcome is continuously bad occurrences throughout the day. Self fulfilling prophecies have a major …show more content…

The extrinsic motivation is when an award or no punishment is given for doing and activity; a boy cleans his room so he isn't grounded. Whilst extrinsic motivation can be negative for reason here it is can be positive for reason here. This effects whether you go to one college instead of the other because a person will work hard for the hope of a scholarship. If they do a person would most likely go to a college where they won't have to pay some or any of the tuition because of the expenses. Intrinsic motivation is when something is done out of joy; playing a sport because you enjoy playing that sport. Intrinsic motivation can have effect on applying to colleges because you find applications exciting, but the major source of motivation is extrinsic because many people always want something and will work hard for whatever it is whether a shirt or a college tuition. Extrinsic motivation can be helpful sometimes in decision making, it can motivate people to squire new skills (applying if you weren't good initially) and given something in return (scholarship for writing an

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