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Relationship between Traumatic Events and the Emotional Stroop Task in Women and Underrepresented Groups. 1. Introduction Traumatic events are frequently occurring within the population. In the literature there is a plethora of information looking at trauma-related symptoms and its relation to attentional bias. There is a significant gap in the literature when analyzing cognitive mechanisms and underrepresented groups. A cross-cultural perspective is an important factor to take into consideration when analyzing cognitive mechanisms to prevent any biases in the literature. The focus of this study is look at how attentional bias may vary in women who are minorities using a modified version of the Stroop Task, Emotional Stroop Task. 2. Background/Review …show more content…

This includes attentional bias as it has been implicated in the possible cause and maintenance of prevalent mental disorders (Van Bockstaele, Verschuere 2013). Upon obtaining a better understanding of attentional bias we can possibly disrupt its prevalence in some disorders. 2.3 Emotional Stroop Task 2.3.1 The emotional stroop task (EST) is a modified version of the Stroop task. In the EST, subjects have to name the colors in which words are printed as fast as possible while ignoring the content of the word. While the task may seem similar, the emotional stroop task focuses on engaging an emotional response that interferes with the task demand of color naming rather than creating a cognitive conflict in the incongruent word presented. Demonstrating that there is an attentional bias in coloring naming bias is found across various disorders is the most common use of the task (Williams, Mathews …show more content…

3.6 Procedure 3.6.1 The task will have contained 6 different conditions, neutral (category/combination), anxiety (tension, agitation), depression (sadness, loneliness), trauma (hunger, damage), abuse (slap, penetrate) and combat-trauma related (warlord, gunman) and positive (happy, sunshine) each containing 20 stimuli. The colors will consist of blue, green, yellow and red. 3.6.2 Participants will be asked to press the key on the keyboard with the color that was associated with that key to identify the the target word as fast as possible while ignoring the meaning of that word. A practice trial containing 6 words will be administered to ensure that the participants understood the task. A fixation cross will present on the screen (500ms) followed by a target stimulus. After the response is recorded the subject will not be told if their answer was correct or incorrect. 4 Budget 4.1 $100 dollars will be needed for a gift card incentive 4.2 $25 dollars for printing business cards to distribute 4.3 $175 dollars needed for travel to clinics and other locations to leave cards and fliers about the

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