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Dictionary of Vocational Psychology
Decision-Making Skills
A central construct in the cognitive information processing theory of Peterson, Sampson, Reardon, and Lenz (1996), decision-making skills transform knowledge of self and occupation into problem recognition and implementation of a solution. The five skills the identified are communication (identifying a gap), analysis (identifying components of a problem), synthesis (identifying promising alternatives), valuing (prioritizing alternatives), execution (forming means-end strategies). They further assume these skills form a cycle, the CASVE cycle.
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