Effects on verbal learning of anxiety, reassurance, and meaningfulness of material.
- 1 January 1958
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 56 (6) , 472-477
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0049335
Abstract
The results showed a significant interaction between test anxiety (high and low) and the kind of instructions (reassurance and standard): reassurance facilitated high test anxiety Ss and detrimental for low test anxiety Ss. In terms of Taylor anxiety scores there were no effects involving anxiety. Discussion in terms of an interfering response interpretation of anxiety. 16 refs.Keywords
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