Temperamental factors associated with the acquisition of information processing biases and anxiety

Information Processing Biases and Anxiety: A Developmental Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 233-252

  White, Lauren K ^a   Helfinstein, Sarah M ^a   Fox, Nathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional and interpretational biases driven by associations between stimulus and outcome; Bias training in children; Cognitive bias modification and training in adults; Cognitive capacities, child needing to learn information processing biases; Effects of cognitive bias modification attributed to two mechanisms; Learning cognitive biases; Learning of information processing biases in anxious children and adolescents

Indexed keywords

EID: 78549255287     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470661468.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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