Table 2.
Correlations between trade-offs in memory and neuropsychological measures
| Test | Specific Recognition Trade-off | General Recognition Trade-off | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anxiety Measures | |||
| Beck Anxiety Inventory, past month | r | 0.454 | 0.075 |
| (Beck et al., 1988) | p | **<.0005 | 0.554 |
| Beck Anxiety Inventory, post-study | 0.421 | 0.125 | |
| (Beck et al., 1988) | **0.001 | 0.327 | |
| Visuospatial Working Memory | |||
| Spatial Span, backwards | −0.507 | −0.069 | |
| (Wechsler, 1997) | **<.0005 | 0.589 | |
| Visual Working Memory | |||
| Self-Ordered Pointing, total number of errors | −0.048 | −0.140 | |
| (Petrides & Milner, 1982) | 0.705 | 0.269 | |
| Self-Ordered Pointing, number of trials with errors | −0.119 | −0.213 | |
| (Petrides & Milner, 1982) | 0.349 | 0.091 | |
| Executive Function | |||
| Verbal fluency, number of perseverations | 0.584 | 0.411 | |
| (Monsch et al., 1992) | **<.0005 | **0.001 | |
| Verbal fluency, percentage of perseverations | 0.569 | 0.430 | |
| (Monsch et al., 1992) | **<.0005 | **<.0005 | |
| Disexecutive questionnaire | 0.475 | 0.250 | |
| (Wilson et al., 1996) | **<.0005 | 0.047 | |
For all measures, higher scores indicate worse performance, except for Spatial Span
**
indicates correlation significant at p <.006