Title
Remembering With and Without Awareness in a Depressed Mood: Evidence of Deficits in Initiative
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1990
Abstract
We propose that depressive deficits in remembering are revealed in tasks that allow the spontaneous use of strategies; tasks that bypass or direct the use of strategies should not produce depressive deficits. College students received depressive- or neutral-mood inductions after answering questions worded to reflect homophones' less common meaning. After the inductions, subjects spelled old and new homophones and showed no effect of the depressive inductions on unaware memory for the old homophones. Subsequent tests of recognition did, however, reveal differences according to the induced moodor the presence of naturally occurring depression (in Experiment 3). The differences, evidence of nondepressed subjects' use of strategies, tended to disappear when all subjects were provided with strategies for spelling or recognition. The results indicate that depressives experience deficits in cognitive initiative. We review the literature on depressive memory from this perspective.
Identifier
10.1037/0096-3445.119.1.45
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Repository Citation
Hertel, P.T., & Hardin, T.S. (1990). Remembering with and without awareness in a depressed mood: Evidence of deficits in initiative. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 119(1), 45-59. doi: 10.1037/0096-3445.119.1.45
Publication Information
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General