Author Question: Your textbook discusses research about the relationship between depression and performance on tasks ... (Read 103 times)

littleanan · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Your textbook discusses research about the relationship between depression and performance on tasks involving the phonological loop. This research showed that

a. people with depression performed significantly worse than people without depression.
b. people with depression actually performed significantly better than people with depression.
c. there was no difference in the performance of the two groups, once the researchers corrected for the fact that the depressed group had lower vocabulary skills.
d. people with depression tended to transform the stimuli into visual patterns that activated the visuospatial sketchpad

Question 2

Based on Chapter 4's discussion of depression and working memory, a clinical psychologist should know that people with depression

a. have trouble on a wide variety of tasks involving the central executive.
b. seldom report any cognitive problems.
c. have much more trouble on tasks involving the visuospatial sketchpad than on tasks involving the phonological loop.
d. have trouble when the phonological loop is involved in two simultaneous tasks.