Subsequently the lack of promotional structures and of recognition for counselling as a cadre threatened the task shifting policies as far as the use of other health professionals was concerned and increasingly opened the door for lay counsellors to provide services in health facilities.
In fact, for serious travelers, New Year resolutions are even kind of fun to think about -- not just additional demoralizing, self-improvement tasks threatening our self-esteem.
Attention: Attentional processing biases are typically revealed when task performance requires attention to non-threatening task-related content in the presence of threatening distracters – for example, when anxious individuals are required to report the colour of threatening words while ignoring their meanings in a Stroop task.
As predicted, students who learned a growth mindset for social situations were less likely to perceive the stressful task as threatening.
One paradigm that allows the investigation of the processing of threatening stimuli when the threatening information itself is not task-relevant is the emotional Stroop paradigm.
Admiral Woodward later said the sinking had been necessary to "take one claw out of the pincer" of a manoeuvre by two Argentine flotillas to threaten the British task force.
But I do believe in the grit and optimism of Cade, McKenzie, Lisa and Joel Feitler, courageous people bonded together to make a miracle slowly happen through the daily grind of hard work — even as the length of the task threatens to stretch for decades.
We stand at a critical moment in the global campaign to scale up treatment for HIV-infected people, one in which the magnitude of the remaining task threatens to overwhelm the hard-fought gains that have brought treatments to millions who recently had none.
High trait anxious children have been found to show a bias toward negative relative to neutral information for conceptual memory tasks [ 18], a processing bias for generally threatening information on an emotional Stroop task [ 19], and a tendency to interpret homophones as threatening rather than neutral [ 20].
In the other three levels, their task was to shoot threatening agents that would approach them on the display.
