Selective attention to threat in childhood anxiety: Evidence from visual probe paradigms

Information Processing Biases and Anxiety: A Developmental Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 77-108

  Garner, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional bias in anxiety predictions from cognitive models; Attentional processes, thought to characterize anxiety; Efficiency of attention system mediating individual differences in intelligence and emotional processing; Reaction times (RTs) to probes to calculate extent to which participants are quicker to respond to probes; Selective attention to threat in childhood anxiety evidence from visual probe paradigms; Spatial cueing tasks evidence of delayed disengagement from threat; Use of visual probe methods in children implications from studies in adults; Using visual probe paradigms with child and adolescent groups; Verbal pathway to fear receiving support from initial tests; Visual Probe Task (Dot Probe)

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EID: 84886226509     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470661468.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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