Sökning: "Attentional bias"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 uppsatser innehållade orden Attentional bias.

  1. 1. DEVELOPMENT OF A MODIFIED EXHAUSTION STROOP TASK BASED ON THE SMBQ

    Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Författare :Elin Stenudd; Rebecka Tholerud; [2018]
    Nyckelord :stroop; exhaustion; burnout; emotional stroop; attentional bias;

    Sammanfattning : To explore the application of a cognitive test useful in screening of Exhaustion Disorder (ED), this study aimed to develop a Modified Stroop Task for ED. Participants’ scores on measures of burnout, anxiety, depression and stress were compared with performance on the task. The sample consisted of 56 participants (M=25. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Dispositional optimism and attentional bias to happy facial expressions

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

    Författare :Anton Klarén; [2018]
    Nyckelord :selective attention; attentional bias; emotion; bottom-up; dispositional optimism; facial expression;

    Sammanfattning : Research suggests that the human attentional system is biased towards emotional events in the environment. This attentional bias is believed to be an adaptive function that can provide survival benefits for the organisms that possess it. Dispositional optimism is a trait defined as a general expectation that good things will happen in the future. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Att mäta utmattning med varianter av symbol digit modalities test

    Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Författare :Björn Walldorf; Hansson Andreas; [2018]
    Nyckelord :exhaustion disorder; burnout; stress-related mental illness; emotional stroop test; attentional bias; symbol digit modalities test; utmattningssyndrom; burnout; stress-relaterad ohälsa; emotional stroop test; attentional bias; symbol digit modalities test;

    Sammanfattning : Hälso- och sjukvården befinner sig under ett allt större tryck av patienter som söker hjälp på grund av utmattningssyndrom. Kognitiva nedsättningar är en kärnkomponent i utmattningssyndrom och effektiva och korta screeninginstrument för att upptäcka dessa behövs för identifiera tillståndet tidigt. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Don't Fear The Reaper? The Effects of Stress on Visual Attention and Threat-Processing

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Författare :Attila Jervelycke; [2017]
    Nyckelord :stress; threat detection; vigilance; attention; bias; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : In the current study, the aim was to investigate whether attentional bias—an automatic and nonconscious pre-attentive process of filtering sensory information for emotional relevance—could be induced in normal students, by manipulating levels of stress. In a within-subject experimental design where each participant completed 3 word search puzzles, it was predicted that the ratio at which participants found negative words to neutral words would positively correlate with the level of induced stress, ranging from low-medium-high. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Det du inte vet mår du dåligt av: En experimentell studie av uppmärksamhets bias hos ångestindivider

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Författare :Johanna Pedersen; [2012]
    Nyckelord :Attention; Attentional biases; Anxiety; Social anxiety; Trait anxiety; Unknown information; uppmärksamhet; uppmärksamhets bias; ångest; social ångest; trait ångest; okänd information; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study was to examine attentional biases in anxiety. Participants with high self-rated anxiety were predicted to differ in their attention compared to participants with low self-rated anxiety. Participants were predicted to have an implicit memory for the combination of faces that were used in the study. LÄS MER