In today's society, cognitive shortcuts play an important role in human behavior and affect daily life. These shortcuts are used every second of every day and we don't realize it. These shortcuts explored techniques based on problem solving, learning and decision making. The goal of this article is to discuss heuristics and algorithms and how we make decisions in our daily lives. We can thus help to better understand the decision and judgment we make. In psychology, heuristics refers to the strategy of learning, problem solving, and in which we use quick decisions to solve a problem (Feldman, 2013). Ex. Educated guesses, stereotypes and intuitive judgment. We used heuristics to deal with a complex problem or situation, based on a quick and direct decision. Sometimes heuristics may not be accurate in solving the problem. As a result of this, three other heuristics were created: The availability heuristic is the process of judging an event based on one's past memories (Feldman, 2013). Representative heuristic This heuristic was designed in 1970 by Daniel Kahneman. Repealing is a process by which you judge someone based on a certain group or category (Feldman, 2013). The anchoring and adjustment heuristics mean this. When it comes to decision making, we rely on many heuristics to speed up the process. In today's society, when people hear the word algorithms, they immediately think of math or science and not psychology. When it comes to psychology algorithms, there is a set of rules that, if you follow them step by step, will allow you to gain in-depth knowledge of your solution. An example of this would be a recipe. When dealing with algorithms in psychology, you can use this step-by-step process. To help you limit ...... middle of paper ......ion before a judgment is made. Since algorithms are sometimes considered a logical thinking skill, they use this process in various ways in mathematics, science, business, and applying the judgment of others. Heuristics and algorithms are two skills that help us understand how we judge things and how we make decisions on a daily basis. based on the use of these two methods. If used correctly, they can have a big impact on our problem-solving and decision-making skills. They can be a basic item that we use in our daily lives. Works Cited Feldman, R. (2013). Cognition and language. Essential elements of understanding psychology (pp. 246-250). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.Gerow, J. Roddrick, C. and Don, C. Basic psychology. Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Pub., 2008. Tversky, A. and Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgments under uncertainty: heuristics and biases. Science, 185.