Molleson, Ava Ivitsky (2020) The Smoking Stroop Task: Attentional Bias towards Smoking-Related Stimuli in Student Smokers. Bachelor, Social Sciences.
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Abstract
Evidence suggests that an automatic attentional bias for substance-related environmental stimuli plays a major role in the provocation of cravings and, therefore, in the maintenance of addiction (Davey, 2015; Franken, Kroon, Wiers & Jansen, 2000). A modified Smoking Stroop Task was used to measure the amount of attentional bias exhibited by smokers and nonsmokers. The aim of this study was to determine whether smokers could be distinguished from nonsmokers by their attentional bias (measured in reaction time). Uniquely, only student smokers (n=29) and nonsmokers (n=46) were recruited. As hypothesised, smokers were found to exhibit an attentional bias that nonsmokers did not exhibit. However, this difference was hard to detect due to high unsystematic variance. Thus, more research with a larger sample size and more stringent inclusion requirements is necessary to settle whether or not the Smoking Stroop Task designed for this thesis is a suitable tool for distinguishing smokers from nonsmokers.
| Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Major: | Social Sciences |
| Supervisor: | May, Christopher |
| Datum van aanlevering: | 03 Jul 2020 13:52 |
| Last modified: | 03 Jul 2020 13:52 |
| URI: | http://ucg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/50 |
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