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Influence of depression and alcoholism on learning, recall, and recognition
Author(s) -
Query William T.,
Megran Jim
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198407)40:4<1097::aid-jclp2270400441>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - psychology , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , depression (economics) , recall , clinical psychology , affect (linguistics) , repetition (rhetorical device) , psychiatry , personality , cognitive psychology , psychoanalysis , communication , linguistics , philosophy , economics , macroeconomics
Tested four groups ( N = 491) of male general hospital S s with the AVLT to determine differences between alcoholic S s and depressed S s (measured by MMPI D). Those both depressed and alcoholic and those neither completed the four groups. Alcoholism lowers initial repetition, recall, and recognition scores, depression lowers only the first of these. Depth of depression is only suggestive as a variable. Beyond trial one depression does not affect AVLT performance, whereas alcoholism is more pervasive.

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