The Implicit and Explicit of Memory of the Patients with Alcolholic Dependence / 中国临床心理学杂志

ABSTRACT

This study combining direct test of memory with indirect test of memory which has been developed in latest years, synthetically studied the memory of the 24 alcoholic depedenec cases aged 42 to 64 years. The results indicated (1) The implicit memory of those cases has no deficiency, vercus, the explicit memory appears impaired. It shows the disasociation between implicit and explicit memory. (2) Implicit item memory and implicit associative memory showed different characteristic respectively. The former can produce priming effect in the condition of mechanical reading. The latter shows feature of associative learning.