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Judgement can have a number of meanings in psychology

  • Most commonly it is related to the decision-making process of forming an opinion on the basis of the available evidence and is the term applied to the decision reached. Some sense of the weighing of alternatives within a given set of values is implied.
  • In older works it was assumed there was a faculty of judgement.
  • In psychophysics a judgement applies to the decision made as to whether, for example, a signal is present of not


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