Abstract
Depression and memory: Is mood-congruent information more accessible? Bower's (1981) associative network theory of mood and memory suggests that depressed mood selectively increases the activation or accessibility of all negative cognitions previously associated with depressed mood. However, in their Interacting Cognitive Subsystems theory, Teasdale and colleagues (e.g., Teasdale y Barnard, 1993) suggest that negative depressive thinking reflects changes, with depression, in the schematic mental models through which information is processed, rather than from changes in the accessibility of cognitive constructs. The aim of the present experiment was to explore the predictions derived from both accounts. The results obtained in this study confirm the predictions based on Bower's(1981) associative network theory. The theoretical implications of these results are discussed.
