title: Emotional mood states and memory: elaborative encoding, semantic processing, and cognitive effort.
abstract: The effects of experimentally induced mood states on recall of target words embedded in sentences or alone were examined in three experiments. All experiments focused on the role of a depressed-mood induction on recall and looked at the effects of elaborative encoding, semantic processing, or cognitive effort. The overall effect of the depressed-mood state was to reduce recall in all three situations; however, the opportunity to process information semantically still led to superior recall in the depressed condition. In contrast, the superiority of recall of high-effort items disappeared in the depressed condition, suggesting that subjects may differentially allocate resources when under a depressed-mood state. The results are briefly discussed within the framework of a resource allocation theory.
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D003071:Cognition; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D012660:Semantics; D014706:Verbal Learning