The assessment of fear-related automatic associations in children and adolescents

Information Processing Biases and Anxiety: A Developmental Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 151-182

  Huijding, Jorg ^a   Wiers, Reinout W ^b   Field, Andy P ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affective priming paradigm (APP); Assessing automatic associations; Assessment of fear related automatic associations in children and adolescents; Automatic association; Distinguishing between automatic and controlled processes; Extrinsic affective Simon task (EAST); Indirect (RT based) measures of automatic associations informative in context of child and adolescent anxiety disorders; Indirect measures of automatic associations, measures referred as; Using EAST in child and adolescents anxiety; Varieties of reaction time (RT)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954235161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470661468.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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