Is Mind Wandering the Mechanism Responsible for Life Stress Induced Impairments in Working Memory Capacity?
Description:
The relationship between life stress and working memory capacity (WMC) has been documented in college students and older adults. It has been proposed that intrusive thoughts about life stress are the mechanism responsible for the impairments seen in WMC. To examine the mechanism responsible for these impairments the current study attempted to induce intrusive thoughts about personal events. The current study allowed for a test of predictions made by two theories of mind wandering regarding the …
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Date:
August 2011
Creator:
Banks, Jonathan Britten