Attentional Biases In Anxiety Flashcards
What are people with anxiety good at?
Spotting dangers in environment
What is trait anxiety ?
How anxious you generally are
What is state anxiety?
How anxious you are in a particular moment
What was the strop test and what did it show?
Naming the colour of threat related words
People with disorders had a slower recall
What was watts et al study?
Naming colour of threat related words
Naming colour of spider related words in phonics and controls
Phonics slower on spider words
Spider ones more interfering for both
What did visual attention tasks show?
If word appears in same place you’re attending too, faster recall
What was Macleod and Mathews 1988 study on students ?
Exam anxiety within weeks or exam 24 exam words 24 neutral 24 threat 24 emotional neutral Measures trait anxiety and depression
Found
Trait low people- didn’t show bias to threat words, slower recall
Anxious ppl- strong bias towards threat words before exam
What did Bradley’s study of faces show?
People with increased anxiety showed vigilance for threats and avoidance for happy faces
What is vigilance ?
Positive, faster when behind the threatening face than anywhere else
What is avoidance ?
Negative score, faster when dot was in other location
Visual search tasks make you what if your scared ?
Faster
What are theoretical issues with all of this?
Some think it’s pre attentive
Does anxiety cause attentional biases or do attentional biases cause anxiety?
What did role of relevance by Lichtenstein show?
People had a bias for emotional pictures
Anxious showed throughout
Are ppl looking for threats cos they are anxious?
What did purkis 2011 show?
We’re attentive to what’s important to us
Are attentional biases a cause ?
Trained people to have a bias using dot probe
Increased anxiety after
