Test Anxiety and Post Processing Interference

Abstract

This study examined whether test anxiety interfered with retrieval of prior learning, or instead if defective study skills lead to poor acquisition. In a free recall list learning paradigm 69 students learned a list of 18 words composed of three categories to a criterion of perfect recall. A similar second list was exposed for three trials. The results provided clear-cut evidence for interference in the retrieval of prior learning by test anxiety and weaker evidence for the influence of study skills. Study skills were unrelated to acquisition indices. (sdw)

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA226194

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  • Sigmund Tobias

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  • City College of New York

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