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Allocation of attention in obsessional disorder
Author(s) -
Gordon P. Kenneth
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1985.tb01320.x
Subject(s) - psychology , cognition , task (project management) , anxiety disorder , cognitive psychology , anxiety , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , management , economics
It is suggested that obsessional disorders may be usefully described as a breakdown of cognitive control processes. Groups of obsessional, anxious and normal subjects were therefore tested on a task involving varying levels of attention, performed under normal and stressed conditions. Results provide some support for the hypothesis of attention failure under stress, but do not confirm that this is due to an underlying difference in the way obsessionals allocate attention.