Real versus facsimile reinforcers on the Iowa Gambling Task

摘要: Abstract The Iowa Gambling Task ( Bechara, Damasio, & Anderson, 1994 ) is an effective neuropsychological tool for the assessment of ‘real-life’ decision-making in a laboratory environment. It has been employed wide range circumstances, though researchers have sometimes real money reinforcers instead facsimile (or ‘monopoly’-type) used by Bechara et al. (1994) . present study investigated whether type reinforcer produced any differences performance. There were no significant between two conditions, Facsimile Money condition greater (and higher standard deviation) than Real condition. This finding especially important when considering as clinical neuropsychology—where there are risks, at individual subject level, both false positive and negative classification errors.