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By J. Mark G. Williams, Fraser N. Watts, Colin M. MacLeod, Andrew Mathews

This e-book responds to the explosion of curiosity in utilizing the equipment of experimental cognitive psychology to assist comprehend emotional problems, specially universal anxiousness and depressive issues. It reports fresh learn, targeting how emotion impacts the subsequent: wakeful and non-conscious processing, reminiscence bias and reminiscence deficits, attentional bias, schematic processing, decisions, ideas and pictures. It additionally explores how irregularities in those strategies can give a contribution to emotional issues

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Another study that supports the significance of introducing short delays is that of Cohen et al. (1982) who found that depressed subjects showed relatively less impairment at zero delays in the recall of trigrams. It is interesting to note that the critical effect seems to come from introducing even a small delay such as 20 seconds. g. Sternberg & Jarvik, 1976; Stromgren, 1977; Kopelman, 1986). Page 59 Though digit span is one of the few memory tasks that is not usually affected by depression, it can be affected by anxiety.

Performance deficits in depression have been studied quite extensively and will be a central focus of the chapter. Again, less attention will be given to studies based on mood-induction procedures (which are well reviewed by Ellis & Ashbrook, 1989) or on variations in mood within the normal population. A useful review of the early literature on the effects of depression on performance was published by Miller (1975), and a more recent one by Cassens et al. (1990). Also, reviews which concentrate chiefly on memory deficits have been published by Johnson & Magaro (1987) and Ellis & Ashbrook (1988).

It will be considered briefly for the implications it may have for the performance of patients with anxiety disorders, but not reviewed in the detail that would otherwise have been appropriate. g. Eysenck, 1992). Performance deficits in depression have been studied quite extensively and will be a central focus of the chapter. Again, less attention will be given to studies based on mood-induction procedures (which are well reviewed by Ellis & Ashbrook, 1989) or on variations in mood within the normal population.

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