In today's society, cognitive shortcuts play an important role in human behavior and influence everyday life. These shortcuts are used every second of every day and we don't realize it. These shortcuts explore based techniques such as 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. In this way we can help us better understand the decision and judgment we make. In psychology heuristics refers to the strategy of learning, problem solving, and where we use quick decisions to help with a problem (Feldman, 2013). Ex. Educated hypothesis, stereotypes and intuitive judgment. We used heuristics to address typically complex problems or situations based on a quick and direct decision. Sometimes heuristics can be inaccurate in solving the problem. As a result of these, three other heuristics were formed: The Availability Heuristic is the process of judging an event based on its past memories (Feldman, 2013). Representative heuristic This heuristic was designed in 1970 by Daniel Kahneman. Representative is a process of judging someone based on a certain group or category (Feldman, 2013). Anchoring and adjustment heuristics mean this. When it comes to making decisions, we rely on numerous heuristics to speed up the process. In today's society, when people hear the word algorithms, their minds immediately go to mathematics or science and not psychology. When it comes to psychology, algorithms are a set of rules that if you follow them step by step you can 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 narrow down... half the paper... before a sentence is issued. Because algorithms sometimes consider a logical thinking skill, they help us in this process in various ways in mathematics, science, business, and in applying the judgment of others. Heuristics and algorithms are two skills that help us understand how we judge things and how we make daily decisions based on using these two methods. If used in the right way they can have a big impact on our problem-solving and decision-making skills. They can be a building block that we use in our daily life situation. Works Cited Feldman, R. (2013). Cognition and language. Essentials for understanding psychology (pp. 246-250). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.Gerow, J. Roddrick, C. & Don, C. Basic Psychology. Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Pub., 2008. Tversky, A. & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgments under conditions of uncertainty: heuristics and biases. Science, 185.