Abstract

ARENY-BALAGUERO, Marina et al. Relation of sensation seeking and decision making in patients with acquired brain injury. Psychol. av. discip. [online]. 2016, vol.10, n.1, pp.25-33. ISSN 1900-2386.

Abstract In this paper was evaluated the influence of cognitive variable "sensation-seeking" in decision-making in 73 patients with acquired brain injury (ABI), by means of a non-experimental, cross-sectional and correlational study, through the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) and sensation seeking sub scale of UPPS-P, as control group, test were applied to 30 healthy subjects who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria proposed. The BART is used because allows a faster application and offer a task of easy execution and understanding, unlike others instruments didn't require that evaluated person present a good preserved complex verbal comprehension capability. In addition, there not exist previous studies correlating both tests. As result significant differences between the clinical and the control group where the last one showed a higher level of risk taking in the BART and sensation seeking in the sub scale UPPS-P. Considering the literature reviewed the results and qualitative observation of clinical group. We might suspect that in decision-making is present the apathy and motivation component. Being able to conclude that sensation-seeking correlate positively with elaboration and performance of decision-making.

Keywords : Neuropsychology; Acquired Brain Injury; Balloon Analogue Risk Task; Cognition; Taking Decisions Risk taking.

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