A sentence completion procedure as an alternative to the autobiographical memory test for assessing overgeneral memory in non-clinical populations

Memory

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 495-507

  Raes, Filip ^a   Hermans, Dirk ^a   Williams, J Mark G ^b   Eelen, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VALIDITY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 34447530437     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210701390982     Document Type: Article

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