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Capacity And Procedural Accounts Of Impaired Memory In Depression, Paula T. Hertel, T. Meiser
Capacity And Procedural Accounts Of Impaired Memory In Depression, Paula T. Hertel, T. Meiser
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Findings of impaired memory in states of dysphoria or depression are summarized and subsumed under different accounts of mood-related memory deficits. Theoretical accounts based on the assumption of a storage system of limited capacity are compared to accounts which emphasize the role of procedures and strategies in attending and remembering. Two reanalyses of a recent experiment in the process-dissociation paradigm are reported. They address issues of dysphoria-related differences in automatic versus controlled uses of memory in a task of word-stem completion. The two reanalyses rest on different assumptions about the relation between automatic and controlled components, but they converge in …