An example that I would give of a situation in which a real-life problem has to be solved or a decision has to be made using good judgement would be the case of deciding what to study in university:
<em>"When I had to decide what I was going to study, I immediately put journalism out of my mind, as I believed it did not suit my personality. Even though I loved writing, I had always imagined that journalists had to be aggressive, </em><em>overconfident</em><em> and pushy, and that news only happened in other, more interesting places. I could not see how that could fit me. The school counselor I talked to kept telling me that this was not the case, but my </em><em>belief perseverance</em><em> would not let me listen to other information. In the end I decided to go for accounting. I believed that accounting was only about boring numbers, and for the first few months, I was responsible of </em><em>confirmation bias</em><em>, as that was the only thing I noticed about my studies. However, over time, I grew to like the path I had chosen, and I do not regret it."</em>
Szasz points to how people have learned the deviant or odd behaviors instead of hidden psychological causes. Seeing as Dr. Szasz felt that psychological underpinnings were of less value than the actual behaviors (i.e., he argued that there were no objective tests for designating a DSM diagnosis), the more important concept to be understood was <span><u>why the person learned to behave as they did.</u></span>
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The effects of the Black Death were many and varied. Trade suffered for a time, and wars were temporarily abandoned. Many labourers died, which devastated families through lost means of survival and caused personal suffering; landowners who used labourers as tenant farmers were also affected.
