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System 2

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System 1 or Effortful System is the system dealing with complex thinking. It can follow rules, compare objects on several attributes, and make deliberate choices between options[1].

It is part of two systems of decision making, the first is the automatic-system(system 1) which decide fast by intuition and the second is the ECS which produce reasoning.The term system 1 and system 2 was given by Stanovich and West[2]

References

  1. Khanman D., 2011, Thinking fast, Thinking slow p. 36
  2. Stanovich KE, West RF., Individual differences in reasoning: implications for the rationality debate? Behav Brain Sci. 2000 Oct;23(5):645-65; discussion 665-726.