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Memory and memory confidence in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

D F Tolin1, J S Abramowitz, B D Brigidi

  • 1Anxiety Disorders Center, Institute of Living, Hartford, CT 06106, USA.

Behaviour Research and Therapy
|August 2, 2001
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Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) showed decreasing memory confidence for unsafe items with repeated exposure. This contrasts with controls, suggesting a unique impact of threat-related stimuli on OCD memory confidence.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Pathological doubt in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is theoretically linked to memory deficits, but empirical evidence is mixed.
  • Previous research indicates individuals with OCD often exhibit low confidence in their memories.
  • Existing studies highlight the need for ecologically valid assessments of memory in OCD.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate memory accuracy and confidence in individuals with OCD.
  • To utilize idiographically-selected, ecologically valid stimuli for memory assessment.
  • To examine the effect of repeated exposure to threat-related stimuli on memory confidence in OCD.

Main Methods:

  • Compared memory accuracy and confidence across individuals with OCD (OCs), anxious controls (ACs), and nonanxious controls (NACs).

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  • Used personally relevant safe, unsafe, and neutral objects as stimuli for OCs.
  • Administered 6 repeated trials of object recall and confidence ratings for each participant.

    • Main Results:

    • No significant group differences were found in memory accuracy.
    • OCs demonstrated a progressive decline in memory confidence for unsafe objects over repeated trials.
    • This decline in confidence was not observed in ACs or NACs.
    • OCs with primary checking reported lower long-term memory confidence than those without.

    Conclusions:

    • Repeated exposure to threat-related stimuli paradoxically decreases memory confidence in individuals with OCD.
    • Memory confidence, rather than accuracy, may be a more sensitive indicator of cognitive processes in OCD.
    • Findings suggest a potential mechanism underlying the persistence of pathological doubt and checking behaviors in OCD.