Watts F N, Cooper Z
J Abnorm Psychol. 1989 May;98(2):150-3. doi: 10.1037//0021-843x.98.2.150.
Investigated depressed patients' memory for stories. This indicated that although normal Ss showed particularly good recall for units central to the structure of the story, this did not hold for depressed Ss. In contrast, effects of centrality were comparable in high- and low-IQ Ss and effects of imageability of story units were comparable in both depressed and normal Ss. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that depressed patients do not use structure to organize stories when encoding them. A failure to identify central aspects of material and selectively recall them is likely to be a handicap to everyday functioning.
研究了抑郁症患者对故事的记忆。这表明，虽然正常被试对故事结构核心单元的回忆特别好，但抑郁症被试并非如此。相比之下，核心性效应在高智商和低智商被试中相当，故事单元的形象性效应在抑郁症被试和正常被试中也相当。这些结果与以下假设一致：抑郁症患者在编码故事时不会利用结构来组织故事。无法识别材料的核心方面并选择性地回忆它们可能会妨碍日常功能。
