Working Memory and
Major Depression
Major Depression
A disorder of when an individual feels sad, discouraged, tired, loss of hope, and apathetic.
What is Major Depression?
A disorder when an individual who gets distracted easily, hyperactive, and impulsive.
What is ADHD?
A disorder of when an individual deals with constant stress and worries that may interfere with daily tasks and activities.
What is GAD?
A symptom of major depression related to working memory of when an individual deals with obsessive negative thoughts.
What is Rumination?
A symptom of ADHD that disrupts working memory by making it hard to focus on tasks.
What is Inattention?
A symptom of GAD when an individual has difficulties with working memory due to extreme stress all the time.
What is Excessive Worry?
True or False: Major Depression is uncommon and it is not important to working memory.
What is False?
True or False: ADHD significantly impacts the visuospatial sketchpad aspect of working memory.
What is False?
True or False: One of the main characteristics of GAD is worry, which may overwhelm working memory.
What is True?
Rumination negatively effects this working memory component.
What is Central Executive?
A child with ADHD fails to follow multi-step directions because they are unable to remember the sequence. This shows an issue with which working memory component.
What is Central Executive?
This working memory component, which is responsible for verbal information, can affect individuals with GAD.
What is Phonological Loop?
Researchers that made a study to examined working memory in individuals who were depressed or nondepressed in 2005.
What is Gary Christopher and John Macdonald?
According to research, working memory issues associated with ADHD frequently impact this kind of memory span, which involves spoken or auditory information.
What is Verbal Working Memory?
Give an example of how a working memory job may be inhibited by worries in GAD.
What is getting distracted by unwanted thoughts when attempting to do an assignment?