Test-anxiety level, heart rate, and anagram problem solving.

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This experiment is concerned with the identification of physiological correlative evidence of test anxiety in a problem-solving situation. While low-anxious, medium-anxious, and high-anxious Ss attempted to solve anagrams, pulse-monitored heart-rate recordings were taken. The principal findings were that high-anxious Ss produced significantly larger increases in heart rate with the onset of the problem-solving task than low-anxious Ss. Also, large increases in heart rate were consistently associated with poorer anagram problem solving. It was concluded that the physiological correlative index was sensitive to both anxiety level and the task situation. (20 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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