Test Anxiety and Exam-Taking Skills as Mediators of Information Processing in College Students
Description:
Cognitive-attentional test anxiety theory posits that test-anxious individuals direct attention internally, thus interfering with task-relevant information processing. Nevertheless, working-memory deficits are often obscured by compensatory exertion of increased effort by anxious subjects on cognitive tasks. Failure to identify anxietyspecific performance decrements has led some authors to replace the test anxiety construct with one emphasizing skill deficiencies. This investigation examined wh…
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Date:
August 1982
Creator:
Paulman, Ronald George
Partner:
UNT Libraries