Your textbook discusses research about the relationship between depression and performance on tasks involving the phonological loop. This research showed that

a. people with depression performed significantly worse than people without depression.
b. people with depression actually performed significantly better than people with depression.
c. there was no difference in the performance of the two groups, once the researchers corrected for the fact that the depressed group had lower vocabulary skills.
d. people with depression tended to transform the stimuli into visual patterns that activated the visuospatial sketchpad


Ans: a

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