Biases

Question 1

Dual process account for CBM

Answer 1

Bias are driven b y bottom up mental associations and their effect is moderated by top down executive control processes.

Question 2

Inferential account CMB

Answer 2

Effectiveness of CBM dependent on inferential processes.

Question 3

Approach bias

Answer 3

Tendency to approach appetitive stimuli. Investigated with AAT (approach-avoidance task)
Faster reaction time in approaching alcoholic drinks vs pushing away (during exp you focus on irrelevant stimuli so you actually test implicit bias).

Question 4

Attention bias

Answer 4

Selective attentions for drug-associated stimuli. Investigated with dot-probe task.
Drug related and neutral stimuli, Shorter response to dots after su cues are seen as biased

Question 5

Memory bias

Answer 5

Automatically activated memory associations, measured with IAT.
Categorising into categories. Association between two words, if stronger with certain associations; memory bias.

Question 6

Using task to retrain biases

Answer 6

Repeating the tasks to improve and create bias into opposite direction. Lot of testing very little evidence.

Proof-of-principle studies: revealing psychological mechanism underlying behavior
Randomized control trial RCT: Testing efficacy of an intervention in clinical sample

Question 7

ABC training

Answer 7

Training with personally relevant antecedent cues (A) to make goal-relevant behavioral choices (B) in light of their consequence (C)