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Tempel, Tobias; Neumann, Roland – Journal of Experimental Education, 2016
We investigated processes underlying performance decrements of highly test-anxious persons. Three experiments contrasted conditions that differed in the degree of activation of concepts related to failure. Participants memorized a list of words either containing words related to failure or containing no words related to failure in Experiment 1. In…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Cognitive Tests, Test Wiseness, Foreign Countries
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Longstreth, Langdon E.; Madigan, Stephen – Intelligence, 1982
Three studies of college students found a sex difference in the correlation of memory scanning rate, short- and long-term components of free recall, and word recognition with memory span. Findings are discussed in terms of prior work and a theory presented to account for the obtained sex differences. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Correlation, Higher Education, Intelligence Differences