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Cups task
On each trial, participants choose between a risky and safe option. Each trial involves either gains or losses. The options are presented as a choice of cups. The risky option involves two to five cups, one containing a gain (loss) of $2, $3 or $5, and the others containing $0. If the latter option is selected, the payoff from one cup is selected at random. The safe cup offers a sure gain (loss) $1.

Definition contributed by RPoldrack about six months ago.


Task records: 3  

reward
  • money earned
 

risk
  • probability of highest reward
 

risk seeking
  • number or value of rewards times probability of reward
 

NPicchetti Initial definition from Hayashi M. cited above
about ten months ago


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Definition contributed by CTorgerson about nine months ago:

a task in which subjects are presented with a number of overturned cups. In some cases only one cup contains a reward, while in other studies the cups contain various levels of rewards (usually different amounts of money).

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Definition contributed by NPicchetti about ten months ago:

a task in which researchers can study a subjects cognitive capacity by the way a subject manipulates cups in a given condition.

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Definition contributed by NPicchetti about one year ago:

a task in which researchers can study a subjects cognitive capacity by the way a subject manipulates cups in a given condition. (PMID: 17533755)

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Definition contributed by NPicchetti about one year ago:

a task in which researchers can study a subjects cognitive capacity by the way a subject manipulates cups in a given condition. (PMID: 17533755)

Revision 1

Definition contributed by SAdministrator about two years ago:

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Neural correlates of adaptive decision making for risky gains and losses.
Weller JA, Levin IP, Shiv B, Bechara A
Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS (Psychol Sci)
2007 Nov
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Functional dissociations of risk and reward processing in the medial prefrontal cortex.
Xue G, Lu Z, Levin IP, Weller JA, Li X, Bechara A
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) (Cereb Cortex)
2009 May
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