Information processing biases in spider phobia: Application of the Stroop and "White Noise" Paradigm

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 187-200

  Olatunji, Bunmi O ^a   Sawchuk, Craig N ^b   Lee, Thomas C ^c   Lohr, Jeffrey M ^c   Tolin, David F ^d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF LIVING   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Implicit memory; Information processing; Spider phobia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT MEMORY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NOISE; PHOBIA; SPIDER PHOBIA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DESENSITIZATION, PSYCHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOBIC DISORDERS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPIDERS;

EID: 41149108672     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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