Thorpe S J, Salkovskis P M
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, U.K.
Behav Res Ther. 1997 Feb;35(2):131-44. doi: 10.1016/s0005-7967(96)00093-9.
Recent research suggests that it is possible to differentiate preconscious and strategic processing of threat stimuli using the Stroop colour naming task. masked and unmasked versions of the Stroop were administered to spider phobics, non-phobic controls and phobics whose fears did not include that of spiders. Colour naming times were recorded to neutral words, spider words and words whose emotionality was comparable to spider words. Results indicated that, in the unmasked condition only, the colour naming of spider words was slower in the spider phobics relative to both the other words types. Further analysis of the data indicated that this result was unlikely to be an effect of word emotionality and was specific to threat. Although the results are broadly consistent with information processing approaches to the understanding of anxiety, the value of this type of paradigm to the understanding of clinical anxiety is questionable.
最近的研究表明，使用斯特鲁普颜色命名任务可以区分对威胁刺激的前意识和策略性加工。对蜘蛛恐惧症患者、非恐惧症对照组以及恐惧不包括蜘蛛的恐惧症患者进行了斯特鲁普任务的掩蔽和非掩蔽版本测试。记录了对中性词、蜘蛛相关词汇以及情感性与蜘蛛相关词汇相当的词汇的颜色命名时间。结果表明，仅在非掩蔽条件下，蜘蛛恐惧症患者对蜘蛛相关词汇的颜色命名相对于其他两种词汇类型更慢。对数据的进一步分析表明，这一结果不太可能是词汇情感性的影响，而是特定于威胁的。尽管这些结果与理解焦虑的信息加工方法大致一致，但这种范式对理解临床焦虑的价值值得怀疑。
