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An Analytical Investigation of Instructions Designed to Elicit Test Anxiety

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Long, K. Kilby; Bessemer, David W. – Psychological Reports, 1971

Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Learning Processes, Learning Theories

Relation of Properties of Causal Attribution and Success Feedback to Performance Efficiency.

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Latta, R. Michael; And Others – 1976

This study (N=160 males) examined the cognitive and behavioral effects of overt success feedback on subjects high and low in resultant achievement motivation (RAM). The cognitive effects of overt success feedback were investigated by requesting attributions to effort, ability, luck, and task difficulty concerning performance on a digit-symbol…

Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Experimental Psychology, Feedback, Higher Education

Individual Differences in Arousal and Their Relationship to Short- and Long-Term Retention. Report From the Project on Motivation and Individual Differences in Learning and Retention.

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Osborne, John W.; Farley, Frank H. – 1971

In two separate paired-associate learning experiments each employing 40 university students as subjects, the contribution of individual differences (IDs) in arousal to short- and long-term retention was investigated using IDs in salivary response to lemon juice stimulation as an index of arousal. Experimental subjects were pre-selected out of 184…

Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, College Students, Experimental Psychology, Individual Differences