Biases

Question 1

Interpretation bias

Answer 1

Interpreting ambiguous information, depressed tend to choose negative

Question 2

Attentional bias

Answer 2

Difficulty disengaging from the negative. In anxiety it’s fast, in depression seen in longer RT. Harder to disengage from it

Question 3

Memory bias

Answer 3

Explicit, might be related to how it’s encoded

Implicit, tend to overgeneralise positive in recalling autobiographical memories