O processo de esquecimento dirigido e as alterações do estado de humor

 

Victor Claudio (*)

 

RESUMO

Neste trabalho estudámos o processo de esquecimento dirigido, em dois grupos de estudantes universitários, não deprimidos e deprimidos, atendendo aos valores obtidos no BDI.

Observamos uma perda do «bias» positivo no segundo estudo, no grupo de deprimidos, que se prende com o facto de neste estudo os adjectivos serem processados em relação ao self. Enquanto que no primeiro estudo isto não acontecia.

Observámos nos dois estudos, que os sujeitos deprimidos apresentam uma desinibição do acesso à informação negativa.

Interpretamos estes resultados com base nos modelos mentais negativos que os deprimidos geram.

Palavras-chave: Depressão, esquecimento dirigido, modelos mentais.

 

ABSTRACT

In this paper we study the directed forgetting task, in two groups of students, non depressed and depressed, in reference to BDI values. In the second study the depressed group loss a positive bias, observed in the first study. The main difference is that the second study have required adjectives to be processed in relation to the self, whereas the first study simply have required adjectives to be processed for their pleasantness.

In both studies the results reforce the existence of a desinibition access to information in the depressed group.

We discuss the results in face of the negative mental models built by the depressed subejcts.

Key words: Depression, directed forgetting, mental models.

 

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(*) Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisboa. Bolseiro PRAXIS XXI.