title: Focused attention and depressive deficits in memory.
abstract: Hertel and Rude (1991) investigated the effects of depression on memory for words in a sentence completion task. They found that depressive deficits in memory can be eliminated by procedures that increase depressed Ss' focused attention to the task. Three areas are considered in this article: irrelevant thoughts, distraction, and inhibition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131.
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Ellis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D013850:Thinking; D014706:Verbal Learning