Anxiety and the use of strategies in the performance of a sentence-picture verification task

Richards, Anne and French, C.C. and Randall, F. (1996) Anxiety and the use of strategies in the performance of a sentence-picture verification task. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 105 (1), pp. 132-136. ISSN 0021-843X.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-843X.105.1.132

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to examine processing strategy differences in anxiety. The sentence–picture verification task was modified to incorporate a block of threat-related trials (involving a knife and a rifle) and a block of neutral trials (involving a truck and a chair). It was predicted that the high-trait, relative to low-trait, anxious individuals would prefer to use a linguistic strategy for threat-related as compared to neutral trials. In addition, the idea that an image-based strategy is more important for processing emotional material was examined. There was some support for both of these hypotheses.

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Item Type:	Article
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
Depositing User:	Sarah Hall
Date Deposited:	04 Feb 2020 15:14
Last Modified:	02 Aug 2023 17:57
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/30799

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