Attentional biases in anxiety

Question 1

What’s trait anxiety?

Answer 1

General anxiety

Question 2

What’s state anxiety?

Answer 2

Anxiety in certain situations

Question 3

What’s the emotional stoop effect?

Answer 3

Naming colour of threat words - harder for spiders?

Question 4

What’s the dot probe task?

Answer 4

Faster reaction time when dot appears in the same place that the threat word was previously in - attention

Question 5

Bradley Mogg and Millar - what task did they do?

Answer 5

Face dot probe task - respond to faces eg angry vs happy
Students self-reported anxiety

Question 6

What did Ohman say?

Answer 6

Faster detection of fear-relevant stimuli, especially if scared