Memoria autobiográfica y estado de ánimoEstudio empírico-diferencial en mayores y jóvenes
- Carlota Beatriz Cabeza Peribáñez 1
- Antonio Sánchez Cabaco 1
- David Urchaga Litago 1
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Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca
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ISSN: 0214-9877
Year of publication: 2014
Issue Title: La salud del adulto mayor: Investigación e Intervención
Volume: 1
Issue: 2
Pages: 79-82
Type: Article
More publications in: International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology: INFAD. Revista de Psicología
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Abstract
The mood is a powerful modulator of the basic psychological processes that happen in the human mind. A negative information processing can do that there appear certain slants that can lead the attention, the perception and the memory turn out to be affected. The present work shows how a depressive frame of mind can act on the Autobiographical Memory (MA). The MA contains a significant arsenal of past experiences and memories that serve as future projection to carry out many behaviors in our day to day, among other functions. It is explained how depression can cause a number of specific positive memories are diminished in comparison with not depressive mood or euthymic. At the same time, emphasizes the optic provided from the Educational Psychology to carry out interventions that optimize the MA and to improve this way the depressive symptomatology.