The relationship of life event stress and working memory capacity

By Kitty Klein, A. Boals. 2001

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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Linking Stereotype Threat and Anxiety (2007, background): “This effect should be particularly pronounced when tasks are challenging or performed under a high cognitive load (see also Baddeley & Hitch, 1974; Derakshan & Eysenck, 1998; Hopko, Ashcraft, Gute, Ruggerio, & Lewis, 1998; Klein & Boals, 2001).”
Stereotypes, stereotype threat and ageing: implications for the understanding and treatment of people with Alzheimer's disease (2008, background): “Perhaps the anxiety associated with stereotype threat depletes one’s cognitive resources ; indeed, there is evidence that high anxiety is correlated with lower working memory capacity (e.g. Derakshan and Eysenck 1998; Klein and Boals 2001).”
Working memory span tasks: A methodological review and user’s guide (2005, background): “For example, clinical research has demonstrated that WM is related to depression (Arnett et al., 1999) and to the ability to deal with life event stress (Klein & Boals, 2001) and is affected by alcohol consumption (Finn, 2002).”
An integrated process model of stereotype threat effects on performance. (2008, background): “Although prior research suggests that physiological arousal alone might increase performance on automated tasks by facilitating the well-learned or prepotent response (Zajonc, 1965), more recent work indicates that the specific nature of such arousal (threat or challenge) should moderate…”
The social psychology of stigma. (2005, background): “Like other types of stress, identity threat can also consume valuable cognitive resources (Klein & Boals 2001).”
Converging evidence that stereotype threat reduces working memory capacity. (2003, background): “For example, individuals who score high in trait anxiety or report experiencing more life stress perform worse than their lessstressed counterparts on measures of working memory capacity (e.g., Derakshan & Eysenck, 1998; Klein & Boals, 2001).”
Emotion and memory narrowing: A review and goal-relevance approach (2009, background): “…of elicitors (e.g., trauma, glucocorticoid administration, public speaking, and, in rats, footshock) has been shown to impair working memory (e.g., Klein & Boals, 2001; Morgan, Doran, Steffian, & Southwick, 2006; Oei, Everaerd, Elzinga, Van Well, & Bermond, 2006) and retrieval (e.g., Het, Ramlow,…”
Trait and State Differences in Working Memory Capacity (2010, background): “Similar effects arise when examining the relationship between stress and WM task performance, Forexample, Klein and Boals (2001) reasoned that more life event stress causes worse performance on WM task.”
Decorative pictures and emotional design in multimedia learning (2016, background): “…are convinced that learning takes place when enough selective attention and reasoning is available (e.g. Kane et al., 2004), hot cognition approaches claim that other factors like emotional conditions enlarge or diminish working memory capacities and learning results (Klein & Boals, 2001).”
The role of working memory in sport (2010, background): “Beyond this, Klein and Boals (2001) found that life event stress reduces WM capacity because people might engage some of their mental resources in order to suppress negative thoughts and feelings.”
Individual differences in working memory capacity and dual-process theories of the mind. (2004, background): “This may explain why, when under significant stress, people experience a reduction in their controlled attention resources (Klein & Boals, 2001; Mizoguchi et al., 2000), such that people experience a resurgence of the threat response.”
An automated version of the operation span task (2005, background): “For instance, WM span tasks have been shown to predict early onset Alzheimer’s (Rosen, Bergeson, Putnam, Harwell, & Sunderland, 2002), the ability to deal with life-event stress ( Klein & Boals, 2001 ), and the effects of alcohol consumption (Finn, 2002; see Unsworth, Heitz, & Engle, in press, for a”