System 2
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ECS or Effortful Control 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(AS) which decide fast by intuition and the second is the ECS which produce reasoning.
References
- ↑ Khanman D., 2011, Thinking fast, Thinking slow p. 36