TY - JOUR
T1 - Feedback May Harm
T2 - Role of Feedback in Probabilistic Decision Making of Adolescents with ADHD
AU - Pollak, Yehuda
AU - Shoham, Rachel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2015/10/10
Y1 - 2015/10/10
N2 - Inept probabilistic decision making is commonly associated with ADHD. In experimental designs aimed to model probabilistic decision making in ADHD, feedback following each choice was, in the majority of studies, part of the paradigm. This study examined whether feedback processing plays a role in the maladaptive choice behavior of subjects with ADHD by comparing feedback and no-feedback conditions. Sixty adolescents (49 males), ages 13–18, with and without ADHD, performed a descriptive probabilistic choice task in which outcomes and probabilities were explicitly provided. Subjects performed the task either with or without feedback. Under the no-feedback condition, adolescents with ADHD and controls performed similarly, whereas under the feedback condition, subjects with ADHD chose the unfavorable outcomes more frequently and risked smaller sums than controls. These finding demonstrate the crucial role of feedback in the decision making of adolescents with ADHD.
AB - Inept probabilistic decision making is commonly associated with ADHD. In experimental designs aimed to model probabilistic decision making in ADHD, feedback following each choice was, in the majority of studies, part of the paradigm. This study examined whether feedback processing plays a role in the maladaptive choice behavior of subjects with ADHD by comparing feedback and no-feedback conditions. Sixty adolescents (49 males), ages 13–18, with and without ADHD, performed a descriptive probabilistic choice task in which outcomes and probabilities were explicitly provided. Subjects performed the task either with or without feedback. Under the no-feedback condition, adolescents with ADHD and controls performed similarly, whereas under the feedback condition, subjects with ADHD chose the unfavorable outcomes more frequently and risked smaller sums than controls. These finding demonstrate the crucial role of feedback in the decision making of adolescents with ADHD.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
KW - Decision making
KW - Feedback
KW - Risk taking
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84941182127&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10802-015-0016-9
DO - 10.1007/s10802-015-0016-9
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C2 - 25862213
AN - SCOPUS:84941182127
SN - 0091-0627
VL - 43
SP - 1233
EP - 1242
JO - Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
JF - Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
IS - 7
ER -