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Recall and recognition in depressives: Use of matched tasks
Author(s) -
Calev Avraham,
Erwin Philip G.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1985.tb01323.x
Subject(s) - psychology , recall , free recall , associative property , cognitive psychology , recognition memory , developmental psychology , audiology , cognition , psychiatry , mathematics , pure mathematics , medicine
This study uses matched tasks methodology, and shows that unipolar depressives perform better on recognition than on recall. Since they also show a low level of item clustering in free recall, this suggests that the memory deficit of depressives is partly due to an associative disturbance.