Critically evaluate evidence suggesting that attention and memory biases may increase vulnerability to obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Terms
Critically evaluate provide evidence taken from a wide range of sources which both agree with and contradict an argument. Conclude, basing your decision on what you judge to be the most important factors and justify how you have made your choice.
Guidance of the topic:
This topic links to the lecture ‘Cognitive biases in OCD and disgust’
First, introduce OCD stating its prevalence and diagnostic criteria-but be brief with these. Then introduce what are the risk factors for OCD and tell the reader why this essay will focus on attention and memory biases. In the main body, the Salkovski’s model of OCD needs to be discussed, and a very good essay will provide a critique of this model. Also, make sure you spend an equal amount of time on memory as well as attention biases. This essay is asking you to focus on attention and memory biases, but a very good essay should acknowledge that these are not the only biases seen in OCD.
