Implicit and explicit memory in pregnant women: an analysis of data-driven and conceptually driven processes.
A study by Brindle, Brown, Brown, Griffith, and Turner (1991), reported that pregnant women showed impaired implicit memory (as measured by a stem completion task) in the presence of intact explicit memory. The present study was an attempt to replicate and extend this finding by employing a read/generate encoding manipulation across data-driven (word fragment completion and graphemic cued recall) and conceptually driven (semantic cued recall and category generation) tests. A total of 64 women (32 pregnant) were tested on both data-driven and conceptually driven tasks either directly or indirectly. No differences emerged between pregnant subjects and non-pregnant controls across tasks. Subjects experiencing their first pregnancy did report their memory in the previous 2 weeks as being considerably worse than normal.
McDowall
J
J
School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. john.mcdowall@vuw.ac.nz
Moriarty
R
R
D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003463:Cues; D003863:Depression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D010700:Phonetics; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000523:psychology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012660:Semantics; D014936:Word Association Tests