Slælelig Depressions Virkning På Indlæring

Abstract

SummaryLearning In Depressive StatesMethodological and clinical pychological problemsTwelve depressive patients, among these eight with endogenous depression, were examined with a word-pair-test, a story recall test, a finger-maze, tests for digit span forwards and backwards, digit learning tests and a test for recognition of nonsense figures, In the first two of these tests both immediate and delayed recall were examined. When the patients were cured or much improved they were reexamined with parallel versions of the same tests.Fifteen other depressive patients were examined and reexamined in a clinically unaltered state with the parallel versions of the same tests. In this way it was shown that on most tests there were no transfer of training when the tests were, as was the case, administered with fairly detailled instructions.In the experimental group of 12 patients, most mean scores for learning were unchanged from the first to the second testing. On a few scores there were small, but significant, imp...