Sele？？o de estímulos visuais para o Teste de Associa？？o Implícita para o Transtorno Obsessivo-Compulsivo (TAI-TOC)

introduction: the identification of cognitive bias in obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) remains inconclusive. an area of potential interest includes the examination of visual processing and implicit memory performance. objectives: select visual stimuli to include in a version of the implicit association test (iat) for ocd. methods: seventeen patients with ocd and 17 healthy controls evaluated 12 visual stimuli related to different dimensions of obsessive-compulsive symptoms and classified the stimuli according to two criteria: "type of impact" (i.e., positive, negative or neutral) and "degree of impact" [i.e., 1 (low impact) to 5 (high impact)]. the chi-square and the mann-whitney tests were employed and the level of significance at 0.05. results: ocd patients evaluated 9 out of the 12 stimuli different from healthy controls in at least one of the two criteria. discussion: the finding that the figures employed were able to differentiate ocd patients from healthy controls suggests their inclusion in the psychopathological assessment development tools, such as the iat-ocd.