A Survey of Recalling Memories by Depressive and Manic Patients and the Normal Group

The present research attemps to survey recalling memories by depressive and manic patients and normal people in the light of the theories mood-dependent recalling, mood-congruence recallling and association network. Researches done formerly predicted that the depressive people recall sad memories while the manic recall cheerful ones. In this research the present researches offered the following five hypotheses: 1- The depressive patients recall sad memories more often than cheerful ones. 2- The manic patients recall cheerful memories more often than sad ones. 3- The rate of recalling sad and cheerfulmemories are the same among the normal people. 4- The rate of recalling sad memories among the depressive is greater than the one among the manic and the normal people. 5- The rate of recalling cheerful memories among the manic is greater than the depressive and the normal people. Three groups of ten members each (10 depressive, 10 manic and 10 normal people) were chosen in order to carry out an experiment: on five hypotheses. Having recorded the memories of the three groups and also having them analyzed, the results showed that the depressive patients recall sad memories more often than cheerfulones and the manic patients recall cheerful memories more often than sad memories; and the rate of recalling sad and cheerful memories are the same among the normal people. There is no difference among the three groups (depressive, manic and normal) in recalling sad memories. However, the depressive people significantly differ from the manic and the normal people on account of recalling cheerful memories.