Focused attention and depressive deficits in memory. |
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| Authors: | H C Ellis |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131. |
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| Abstract: | Hertel and Rude (1991) investigated the effects of depression on memory for words in a sentence completion task. They found that depressive deficits in memory can be eliminated by procedures that increase depressed Ss' focused attention to the task. Three areas are considered in this article: irrelevant thoughts, distraction, and inhibition. |
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