Watts - cognitive explanation
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- Created on: 17-04-15 17:51
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- Watts (cognitive explanation)
- to find out if phobic participants would attend more to words or pictures relating to their phobia compared to non-phobics
- participants with arachnophobia and non-phobic participants
- given variations of the stroop task
- had to name the ink colour of spider-related words or, in another variation, spider-related images
- arachnophobics took significantly longer to name the ink colours for the spider related items
- suggests that people with phobias have a cognitive bias whereby they selectively attend to items related to their phobia, making them more anxious than others
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