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Cued recall in depression
Author(s) -
Watts Fraser N.,
Sharrock Robert
Publication year - 1987
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.2044-8260.1987.tb00743.x
Subject(s) - cued recall , psychology , recall , free recall , cued speech , recall test , cognitive psychology , context dependent memory , depression (economics) , verbal memory , california verbal learning test , serial position effect , developmental psychology , audiology , cognition , neuroscience , medicine , economics , macroeconomics
An experiment is reported in which a depressed and a control group were tested on free recall, cued recall and recognition memory for a prose passage. As expected from previous work the depressives tended to show less impairment on recognition than on free recall. However, contrary to what some theories would predict, cued recall performance was no better than free recall. The implications of this finding for the nature of the depressive memory deficit for neutral materials are discussed. It seems that neither the amount of verbal output required, nor the need to generate retrieval cues, are critical factors.