"Perhaps you only imagined doing it": Reality-monitoring in obsessive-compulsive checkers using semi-idiographic stimuli

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 305-320

  Cougle, Jesse R ^a   Salkovskis, Paul M ^b   Thorpe, Susan J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Checking; Memory; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Reality monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ATTITUDE; CONTROL GROUPS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REALITY TESTING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 44449108170     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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