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Anxiety and Verbal Learning in Typically Developing Primary School Children: Less Efficient but Equally Effective
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Butcher, Phillipa R.; Heubeck, Bernd G.; Welvaert, Marijke – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Background: Despite evidence that high levels of anxiety can impair Working Memory (WM) functioning, little is known about how anxiety is associated with classroom learning activities, which make high demands on verbal WM. Aims: To investigate the association between anxiety and learning on a task which makes high demands on verbal WM. Sample:…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Verbal Learning, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Covariation of Intraindividual Variability in Cognitive Speed and Cognitive Performance across Young, Middle, and Older Adulthood
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Bielak, Allison A. M.; Anstey, Kaarin J. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Intraindividual variability (IIV) in cognitive speed, or moment-to-moment changes in ability, is a developmental phenomenon indicative of neurological integrity that increases gradually across adulthood. Past research has shown that IIV negatively covaries with cognitive performance, in which higher IIV at one occasion is associated with poorer…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences, Cognitive Ability, Adult Development
Task Difficulty, Relaxation, and Anxiety Level During Verbal Learning and Recall
Straughan, James H.; Dufort, W. Henry – J Abnorm Psychol, 1969
Reprints from: James H. Straughan, Experimental Education Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105.
Descriptors: Anxiety, Performance Factors, Recall (Psychology), Relaxation Training
Comparison Levels, Test Anxiety, Ongoing Affect, and Complex Verbal Learning
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Snyder, C. R.; Katahn, Martin – American Journal of Psychology, 1973
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of comparison levels (standards of achievement), test anxiety, and ongoing self-reported affect to performance on a classroom type complex verbal learning task. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Methods, Psychological Studies
The Role of Verbalization in the Retention of Meaningful Prose.
Rock, Samuel K., Jr. – 1975
It was predicted that verbalization of prose materials would produce greater anxiety but would also result in greater retention of the passages, that prior knowledge of the verbalization requirement would lead to better retention, and that induced expectancy to verbalize would result in better retention than would no expectancy. Results indicated…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Associative Response Competition in Schizophrenia
Kapche, Robert – J Abnorm Psychol, 1969
Based on a master's thesis submitted to Northwestern University. Presented in part at Western Psychological Association meetings (San Francisco, May 5, 1967).
Descriptors: Anxiety, Association (Psychology), Emotional Disturbances, Mental Disorders
Effects of Test Anxiety on Acquisition, Retention, and Generalization of a Complex Verbal Task in a Classroom Situation
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Ray, William J.; And Others – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Generalization, Learning Processes
Anxiety and Performance: Each Affects the Other One.
Ferguson, Eva Dreikurs – 1981
Investigators assessing the effect of motivation on performance rarely report the effect of performance on motivation. College students (N=48), preselected by anxiety scores, were tested on adjective pairs lists; additionally, anxiety was measured before and after task performance. Results showed that anxiety had a marked effect on verbal learning…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Higher Education, Influences, Interaction
Test Performance on a Verbal Learning Task as a Function of Anxiety-Arousing Testing Instructions
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Mandelson, Leonore R. – Journal of Educational Research, 1973
The purpose of this study was to clarify some of the dynamics of test anxiety in the foreign-language classroom: to evaluate the effect of different test instructions (calculated to arouse or reduce test anxiety) on the test performance of foreign language pupils. (Author)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Anxiety, Data Analysis, Elementary School Students