Depressive Symptoms and Category Learning: A Preregistered Conceptual Replication Study.

ABSTRACT: We present a fully preregistered, high-powered conceptual replication of Experiment 1 by Smith, Tracy, and Murray (1993). They observed a cognitive deficit in people with elevated depressive symptoms in a task requiring flexible analytic processing and deliberate hypothesis testing, but no deficit in a task assumed to require more automatic, holistic processing. Specifically, they found that individuals with depressive symptoms showed impaired performance on a criterial-attribute classification task, requiring flexible analysis of the attributes and deliberate hypothesis testing, but not on a family-resemblance classification task, assumed to rely on holistic processing. While deficits in tasks requiring flexible hypothesis testing are commonly observed in people diagnosed with a major dep

SUBMITTER: Rutten I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6634606 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature