Attentional Bias in Psychological Disorders: A Comprehensive Review

This literature review examines attentional biases in various psychological conditions, drawing from three articles. The first article highlights attentional bias in high test-anxious individuals, showing increased N200 amplitude, while low test-anxious individuals exhibit avoidance. The second article explores attentional biases in depressed patients with bipolar disorder, noting difficulties in disengaging attention from angry and happy facial expressions. The third article investigates remitted depressed patients, finding reduced negative attentional bias and insufficient positive attentional bias. The review concludes that attentional biases play a significant role in the manifestation and remission of psychological disorders, impacting emotional processing and cognitive functions. Desklib provides access to solved assignments and resources for further study.

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Article 1: Stress Results in Attentional Bias and Altered Neural Reactivity in Test-Anxious Individuals
The results reflected that there is an attentional bias towards high test anxious people when they have enhanced N200 amplitude whereas low test anxious individuals
mainly reflect avoidance due to decrease in N200 amplitude. Hence, it can be stated that planned comparison was run in order to compare the effects within high as well as less test anxious.
This shows that there is a positive impact identified and stress do have a direct impact over the patients.
Article 2: Attentional biases for emotional facial stimuli in currently depressed patients with bipolar disorder
The present article shows that the nature as well as time course of attentional biases for an emotional information in a depressive patients with bipolar
disorder and this shows that there are different difficulties identified over disengaging attention away from the angry as well as happy facials expressions as compared to
other participants. Thus, it can be reflected that due to deficit at an early stage of alternative processing of emotional information.
Article 3: Alleviated negative rather than positive attentional bias in patients with depression in remission: an eye-tracking study
All the total 27 remitted depressed patents and 27 healthy control analysed to determine the test and identified that there is no significant difference between the local as well as
initial attentional maintenance. Thus, it can be stated that RD group show significantly less attentional bias as compared to happy faces and as a result, there is no difference identified in their
attentional bias with regard to sad faces as compared to HC group. Overall, it can be stated that RD patients are more successfully eased and this in turn shows insufficient positive attentional bias
between them.
REFERENCES
Stress Results in Attentional Bias and Altered Neural Reactivity in Test-Anxious Individuals. 2016. [Online]. Available through: < https://www.hindawi.com/journals/np/2018/3281040/ >.
Attentional biases for emotional facial stimuli in currently depressed patients with bipolar disorder. 2009. [Online]. Available through: < https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/337/33712038003.pdf >.
Alleviated negative rather than positive attentional bias in patients with depression in remission: an eye-tracking study. 2016. [Online]. Available through:
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0300060516662134>.