ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

It's Complicated: The Relationship between Trauma and Working Memory

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Cognitive Psychology

  • Misty Cavanagh
    Southeastern Oklahoma State University
  • Elisabeth Ponce-Garcia
    University of Oklahoma
  • Madewell Amy
    Southeastern Oklahoma State University

Abstract

The relationship between traumatic experience and working memory deficits remains unclear due to individual differences within survivors and trauma type. Two studies were designed to assess differences in reported working memory deficits based on trauma type, to include interpersonal betrayal, interpersonal low betrayal, and no betrayal, and moderating protective factors.

Memory