| Abstract: | Explores the relationship between depression and category learning. It was predicted that depression would impair categorization performance on criterial-attribute tasks, which require systematic hypothesis testing, but not on family-resemblance tasks, which allow processing strategies that are likely preserved in depression. These predictions were confirmed in 2 experiments using different stimuli tasks, and S populations. Implications of the empirical connections among depression, the use of less sophisticated cognitive strategies, and category learning are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
