7. Attentional Bias

Question 1

What is trait anxiety? (ccc attentional bias)

Answer 1

How anxious you generally are

Question 2

What is state anxiety? (ccc attentional bias)

Answer 2

How anxious you are given certain situations

Question 3

What tests can be used to measure attentional bias? (ccc attentional bias)

Answer 3

• The emotional stroop
• Dot probe tasks
• Visual search paradigm

Question 4

How does the emotional stroop effect work? (ccc attentional bias)

Answer 4

P’s are asked to name the colour of the word, when the image was something p’s feared, they faster in recall

Question 5

How does the dot probe task work? (ccc attentional bias)

Answer 5

P’s look at a screen and wherever the dot appears you can measure how far their attention has travelled

Question 6

How does the visual search paradigm work? (ccc attentional bias)

Answer 6

• P’s are shown two photos (where one is always neutral)
• Condition 1 had many mushrooms and one spider (easy for spider phobics to find)
• Condition 2 had many spiders and one mushroom (hard for spider phobics to find)