BEHAVIORAL DECISIONS

Behavioral Decisions

Behavioral Decisions

Introduction

Healthy adolescents and healthy adults had similar performance in the task of game. Adolescents with behavior disorders performed worse than the healthy group, but only in the second testing session. In adults, general gambling task performance did not differ between groups of healthy and substance abuse in any testing session, indicating no difference in learning decision-making strategies between groups. However, adults with substance abuse performed more poorly than healthy adults at an early stage of the task, when participants will probably begin to understand the rewards and penalties involved in the task, but still are not sure of ...