Appendix A.

Description of measures completed by control participants.

Domain	Variable	Description	Source
Screening	Mini Mental State Exam	Brief cognitive screening assessing global cognition across five domains	Folstein et al. (1975)
Depression	Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale	Self-report questionnaire assessing depressive symptoms within the past week	Radloff (1977)
Social Support	ENRICHD Social Support Inventory	Questionnaire assessing perceived availability of emotional, informational, and practical support.	Mitchell et al. (2003)
Coping	Cope Inventory	Self-report questionnaire asking participants to report how they cope in stressful situations	Carver et al. (1989)
Perceived Stress	Perceived Stress Scale	Questionnaire assessing situational stress appraisal within the past month	Cohen et al. (1983)
Working Memory	N-back Test	Decide whether presented letter is the same as 2- or 3- trials back	Kirchner (1958), Stoet (2010, 2017)
Episodic Memory (immediate and delayed recall)	WMS-III Word-Recall Subtest	Number of words recalled across 5 trials of a word list	Wechsler (1997)
Attention	Stroop Color-Word Interference Test	Respond to color of ink that word is printed in	Stoet (2010, 2017)
Processing Speed	WAIS-IV Digit Symbol Test	Use a code legend to indicate the correct symbol underneath each digit	Weschler (2008)
Processing Speed	Pattern Comparison	Make same/different judgments of pairs of line patterns	Salthouse and Babcock (1991)
Processing Speed	Letter Comparison	Make same/different judgments of pairs of letter strings	Salthouse and Babcock (1991)
Executive Functioning	Connections	Connect circles in order (e.g., numerical order, alphabetical order, alternating between numerical and alphabetical order, and alternating between alphabetical and numerical order)	Salthouse et al. (2000)
Visuospatial Processing	Mental Rotation Task	Choose rotated stimulus that matches target stimulus	Shephard and Metzler (1971), Stoet (2010, 2017)
Implicit Memory	Word-Stem Completion Task	Phase I (study phase): Read word-list, construct visual image of each word, and rate the pleasantness of the image. Phase II (test phase): fill in word-stems	Roediger et al. (1992)