In a Famous Study, Bechara and Colleagues (1996) Had Participants

Multiple Choice

In a famous study, Bechara and colleagues (1996) had participants play a card game where they selected cards that were assigned different values. They rigged decks of cards so that two decks were overall beneficial (selecting cards from them would result in more gains than losses) , and two were disadvantageous (selecting cards from them would result in relatively more losses) What did this study demonstrate?

A) Participants who learned to tell the difference between the good and bad decks more quickly had greater overall psychological well-being, suggesting the importance of this general ability
B) Participants' physiological reactions were tracking the value of the decks before participants were consciously able to indicate which decks were good and bad.
C) Participants could explicitly name the good and bad decks before they had differing physiological responses to them, suggesting high-level cognition controls emotional responding
D) Participants' physiological activity never correlated with their explicit knowledge of good and bad decks, suggesting an inherent dissocation between explicit knowledge and emotion responding