Journal article
Modeling Individual Differences in Perceptual and Attentional Processes Related to Bulimic Symptoms
Journal of abnormal psychology (1965), Vol.111(4), pp.598-609
11/2002
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.111.4.598
Abstract
Attentional and perceptual differences between women with high and low levels of bulimic symptoms were studied with techniques adapted from cognitive science. Stimuli were pictures of young women varying in body size and facial affect. A multidimensional scaling analysis showed that the high-symptom women were significantly more attentive to information about body size and significantly less attentive to information about affect. In prototype classification tasks, the high-symptom women used significantly more information about body size and significantly less information about affect. There were strong associations between individual differences in attention in the similarity task and decision making in the classification tasks. The study shows the potential utility of cognitive science methods for the study of cognitive factors in psychopathology.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Modeling Individual Differences in Perceptual and Attentional Processes Related to Bulimic Symptoms
- Creators
- Richard J Viken - Department of Psychology, Indiana UniversityTeresa A Treat - Department of Psychology, Indiana UniversityRobert M Nosofsky - Department of Psychology, Indiana UniversityRichard M McFall - Department of Psychology, Indiana UniversityThomas J Palmeri - Department of Psychology, Indiana University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of abnormal psychology (1965), Vol.111(4), pp.598-609
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- DOI
- 10.1037/0021-843X.111.4.598
- ISSN
- 0021-843X
- eISSN
- 1939-1846
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2002
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984214745902771
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