Anxiety: The Cognitive Perspective

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ISBN: 9780863770715 | 0863770711
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/1/1992

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Theorists are increasingly arguing that it is fruitful to approach anxiety from the cognitive perspective, and the empirical evidence supports that contention. The cognitive perspective is also adopted for this book but the approach represents a development and extension of earlier studies.

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Preface
The Cognitive Approach	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Why a Cognitive Perspective?	p. 3
Cognitive Psychology: Experimental vs. Social	p. 7
Experimental Cognitive Psychology: Evolutionary Perspective	p. 10
Summary and Conclusions	p. 11
Theories of Anxiety and Cognition	p. 13
Introduction	p. 13
Gray's Neuropsychological Theory	p. 14
Beck's Schema Theory	p. 18
Bower's Associative Network Theory	p. 23
Williams et al. (1988)	p. 27
Summary and Conclusions	p. 31
Vulnerability to Anxiety	p. 35
Introduction	p. 35
Trait Anxiety	p. 38
Generalized Anxiety Disorder	p. 44
Assessing Cognitive Vulnerability	p. 46
Summary and Conclusions	p. 50
Attentional Processes	p. 51
Introduction	p. 51
Breadth of Attention	p. 52
Scanning	p. 56
Distractibility	p. 58
Selective Attentional Bias	p. 68
Summary and Conclusions	p. 76
Comprehension, Memory, and Threat	p. 79
Introduction	p. 79
Interpretation of Ambiguity	p. 80
Negative Memory Bias: Non-clinical Studies	p. 85
Implicit Memory Bias: Non-clinical Studies	p. 90
Negative Explicit Memory Bias: Clinical Studies	p. 92
Negative Implicit Memory Bias: Clinical Studies	p. 93
Summary and Theoretical Integration	p. 95
Worry	p. 99
Introduction	p. 99
Domains of Worry	p. 101
Theoretical Approaches	p. 109
Individual Differences	p. 120
Summary and Conclusions	p. 123
Processing and Performance	p. 125
Introduction	p. 125
Sarason's (1984, 1988) Cognitive Interference Theory	p. 126
Humphreys and Revelle's (1984) Information Processing Theory	p. 127
Processing Efficiency Theory	p. 130
Anxiety and Depression	p. 144
Summary and Conclusions	p. 150
Overview	p. 153
Cognitive Vulnerability for Generalized Anxiety Disorder	p. 153
Hypervigilance Theory	p. 155
Anxiety Disorders and Cognitive Biases	p. 157
Future Directions	p. 161
Summary and Conclusions	p. 165
References	p. 167
Author Index	p. 185
Subject Index	p. 183
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