Role of attention, memory, and covariation-detection processes in clinically significant eating-disorder symptoms

Cognitive processes underlying women's risk judgments: Associations with sexual victimization history and rape myth acceptance.

“…Thus, in the current study, participants completed an implicit attention task prior to the explicit risk classification task. We used a prototype classification task (Treat, Viken, Kruschke, & McFall, 2010; Viken, Treat, Nosofsky, McFall, & Palmeri, 2002), in which participants first viewed two prototypical vignettes reflecting important differences in both victimization risk and popularity impact. Participants then classified additional vignettes as more similar to one or the other prototype, without experimenter instruction or feedback about the basis for their decisions.…”

Cognitive Processing of Weight and Emotional Information in Disordered Eating

“…More generally, the presented work illustrates what hybrid clinical-cognitive science has to offer (a) clinical scientists’ efforts to understand and modify processing patterns linked to psychopathology; and (b) cognitive scientists’ efforts to evaluate the generalizability of their approaches to more complex, socially relevant circumstances (e.g., Lee & Webb, 2005). A growing body of research attests to the portability of cognitive science approaches to examinations of clinically relevant processing (e.g., Farris, Viken, & Treat, in press; Neufeld, 2007; Treat et al, in press; Viken et al, 2002). Thus, the time is ripe for the rapid exploration of the relatively unmapped region of quantitative clinical-cognitive science.…”

“…Recently, we evaluated the extent to which attention, memory, and correlation-detection processes operate differently among high-, medium-, and low-symptom college-aged women (Treat, Viken, Kruschke, & McFall, in press). Participants first completed the prototype classification task with 28 photo stimuli, followed by a recognition memory task.…”

“…We developed a correlation-detection task to examine whether high-symptom women showed a stronger illusory correlation than did low-symptom women, as well as altered sensitivity (Treat et al, in press; see Crump, Hannah, Allan, & Hord, 2007, for a related paradigm). On each 8-second trial, participants viewed a rapidly presented series of 16 women for 500 milliseconds apiece and then judged the correlation of the women’s affect and body size.…”

The effects of sexual and religious orientations on memory for weight-related stimuli

“…However, it is not clear if memory in general is affected by restrained eating habits or just specific memories related to certain cues. Furthermore, Treat, Viken, Kruschke, and McFall (2010) investigated how information processing occurred among women, specifically in their attention, memory, and covariation-detection processes in eating disorder symptoms. Covariation-detection was determined by participants making judgments about other women's body sizes and affects through photographs.…”