TOPIC 8:

Problem Solving & Decision Making

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 What it is?
• Decision-making is closely related to problem
solving, sometimes difficult to distinguish and there
is also a confusion that both is the same skill.

• Decision-making and problem-solving skills are two

different things and has its own uniqueness.

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 Mind boost 1:
Decision making or problem solving?
• Imagine you are a doubles badminton player
in college you and your friends have moved to
other colleges.
Who would be your new partners that will be
invited to work with you?

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 Mind Boost 2:
Decision making or problem solving?

• Ahmad sees too many popular foods selling in

the college cafeteria. With just RM5.00,
what foods can he buy?

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 Mind boost 3 :
Decision making or problem solving?

• A teenager involved in drugs tries his best to

get to the right path

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 Mind boost 4:
Decision making or problem solving?
• You have an
appointment with a
friend. You are late,
your car keys are
missing.
What should you do?

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Difference?

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DECISION MAKING

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 Importance of
Decision Making Skills
 Prevent us from making mistakes while thinking
and take actions that will not benefit us.
 Make use of existing information sources.
 Consider and evaluate all the options available.
 Able to make the best selections.
 Reflection before implementing an action.
 Acting on a decision made based on the criteria
and purpose

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Imagine you and your friends are in the National
Park for hiking activities. As the day gets darker,
you and your friends realize you are lost in the
forest.
What action should be taken?

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To facilitate your understanding and clarity about what to do, please answer the following questions:
What choices do you have? List them down.

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PROBLEM SOLVING

‘The measure of success is not whether you have a tough

problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you
had last year.’
John Foster Dulles, Former US Secretary of State.

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5 Steps In
Problem
Solving

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 Importance of Problem Solving

 Can find the best solution;

 Refrain from acting in a hurry;
 Explore and consider many options;
 Enable individuals to think in a systematic and
rational
 Enabling actions on decisions that have been
taken into account all the factors
 Reflection before implementing an action
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Look at this picture
carefully and answer
the questions below.
a. Describe the situation
picture in this picture
b. What is the problem
with the situation?
c. If two men were
facing the problem to
save the child because
the high river current
and the place of the
rope being tied almost
collapsed, If you look at
the situation, how can
you help them?
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