Critical Thinking

System 1 vs. System 2

System 1

  • quick

  • reactionary

  • heuristic

  • susceptible to bias

  • pattern recognition

System 2

  • thoughtful

  • costly

  • rational

Heuristics

  • "efficient cognitive processes, conscious or unconscious, that ignore part of the information"

  • in some situations, decisions are better using heuristics than when using rational models