Anxiety, as a state or as a personality trait, has been for quite some time in the focus of attention bias research. It has been proven many times that the human power of detecting visual stimuli is very high, even at a levels of the successful detection of a very short stimulus of 180 milliseconds. However, when exactly the attentional bias actually occurs, it is not yet fully understood. Some authors suggest that attention bias already occurs at the early, automatic stages of stimulus processing, while others say that bias occurs only at higher, more conscious levels of cognition. Attention bias, in the context of anxiety and its impact on performance, refers to the greater focus and retention of attention on threatening stimuli that is unrelated to the task. One of the functions of the central executive, the inhibition, plays a particularly important role in that case, and that is to inhibit the dominant, automatic response to the threatening stimulus and to return attention back to the task. In more anxious people, the mechanism of inhibition is weaker compared to less anxious, so this process consumes a certain part of the resources of the central executive that could otherwise be spent on solving the task itself. One of the ways we mark the cost of a central executor’s resources is response time. In the case of interference during task performance, more anxious individuals show attention biases by faster detection and longer retention on threatening stimuli. The dot-test task has proven to be an effective tool in diagnosing such attentional biases in perception. The aim of this research is to determine the relationship between anxiety and working memory, ie the state and traits of anxiety and the bias on aversive stimuli during the performance of the task. The study involved 47 female students, first and second year of undergraduate studies in psychology in Zadar, with an average age of 21 years. The results did not determine teh significant difference between the reaction time at the target when it appeard after aversive stimuli and when it appeard after appetizing stimuli, nor did it show the connection between anxiety measures and measures of efficiency of the working memory.