Distraction and depressive cognitions
Tóm tắt
Recent advances in the treatment of depression have focused on the cognition of patients, not as a symptom of depression but as a probable cause. Research supporting such developments focuses on descriptions of the content of depressed cognitions. The present study using standard cognitive techniques examined depressive cognitions as processes trying to determine the effects of the operation of these cognitions on mental functioning. Subjects were tested on a recall task that required them to pay attention to two tasks at once under several levels of difficulty. Being exposed to a distracting shortterm memory task affected recall in a manner similar to that proposed for depressive schemata. The data suggest a model of how depressive schemata might actually operate in a parallel fashion.
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