Decision-making Sample flowchart representing a decision process when confronted with a lamp that fails to light In psychology, decision-making (also spelled decision making and decisionmaking) is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible alternative options.
de•ci•sion (dɪˈsɪʒ ən) n. 1. the act or process of deciding. 2. the act of making up one's mind: a difficult decision. 3. something that is decided; resolution. 4. a judgment, as one pronounced by a court. 5. the quality of being decided; firmness: to speak with decision.
DECISION meaning: 1 : a choice that you make about something after thinking about it the result of deciding; 2 : the ability to make choices quickly and confidently