工作记忆负载对选择性注意情绪面孔对社会焦虑个人的影响
Mingfan Liu1,2, Chen Cheng1, Yating Xu1
1Department of Psychology, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China.
PsyCh journal
|February 1, 2024
概括
高社会焦虑症 (HSA) 个体表现出与威胁相关的注意偏差,这种偏差不受工作记忆负载的影响. 这种偏见似乎源于自动自下而上的过程,而不是自上而下的认知控制.
科学领域:
- 认知心理学 认知心理学
- 临床心理学 临床心理学
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
背景情况:
- 患有社会焦虑症 (SA) 的人表现出对威胁相关刺激的注意偏向.
- 在这种注意偏差中,自上而下的认知控制的作用是有争议的.
研究的目的:
- 研究工作记忆 (WM) 负载对高社会焦虑 (HSA) 和低社会焦虑 (LSA) 个体对情感面孔的选择性注意力的影响.
- 为了确定认知控制过程是否调节社会焦虑中的注意偏差.
主要方法:
- 一个修改后的侧翼任务被采用了情感面孔 (愤怒,快乐,中立) 作为目标和分心器.
- 使用两个计数任务来操纵工作内存负载:低负载 (向前计数2次) 和高负载 (向后计数7次).
- 参与者包括34名HSA和36名LSA个人.
主要成果:
- 在应对愤怒的目标时,HSA个体表现不佳.
- 与LSA个体相比,HSA个体经历了愤怒的分心者的更大的干扰.
- 工作记忆负载在两个组中都没有显著影响这些注意力偏差.
结论:
- 研究结果表明,高度的社会焦虑与注意力控制受损有关.
- 在HSA个体中,与威胁相关的注意偏差似乎是由自动自下而上的过程驱动的.
- 在测试条件下,认知控制机制似乎无法调节这种偏差.
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