Dissociative style and individual differences in verbal working memory span

被引:38
作者
de Ruiter, MB [1 ]
Phaf, RH
Elzinga, BM
van Dyck, R
机构
[1] Univ Amsterdam, Psychon Dept, Fac Social & Behav Sci, NL-1012 WX Amsterdam, Netherlands
[2] Leiden Univ, Dept Clin & Hlth Psychol, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
[3] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Dept Psychiat, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
[4] Leiden Univ, Sect Clin & Hlth Psychol, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
关键词
dissociation; dissociative style; working memory; attention; individual differences;
D O I
10.1016/j.concog.2004.08.002
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Dissociative style is mostly studied as a risk factor for dissociative pathology, but it may also reflect a fundamental characteristic of healthy information processing. Due to the close link between attention and working memory and the previous finding of enhanced attentional abilities with a high dissociative style, a positive relationship was also expected between dissociative style and verbal working memory span. In a sample of 119 psychology students, it was found that the verbal span of the high-dissociative group was about half a word larger than of the medium and low-dissociative groups. It is suggested that dissociative style may be one of only very few individual differences that is directly relevant to consciousness research. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:821 / 828
页数:8
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