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Korean Journal of Psychology: General

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Effects of Test Anxiety and Stress on the Processing of Test-related Stimuli

Korean Journal of Psychology: General / Korean Journal of Psychology: General, (P)1229-067X; (E)2734-1127
1996, v.15 no.1, pp.205-216
Chung-Hee Park (Kyungbook National University)
Young-Hwan Kim (Kyungbook National University)
Park, C., & Kim, Y. (1996). Effects of Test Anxiety and Stress on the Processing of Test-related Stimuli. Korean Journal of Psychology: General, 15(1), 205-216.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of test anxiety and stress on the processing of test-related stimuli. The subjects in this study were sixty university students with high or low test anxiety. In order to manipulate stress experience they received success or failure feedback through a anagram task. Subsequently a modified Stroop task was used to assess the selective processing of test-related stimuli in high and low test-anxious subjects. The results were as follows: High test-anxious subjects were slower in color naming all words than low test-anxious subjects, but anxiety groups x types of words interaction was not significant. Although there was only a nonsignificant tendency of selective processing of test-related stimuli in high test-anxious subjects, these results failed to demonstrate selective processing of test related stimuli in high test-anxious group. And also stress groups x types of words interaction was significant. High stress group subjects were slower in color naming threat words than low stress group subjects: the difference between two groups in color naming positive words and neutral words was not significant. This result suggested that a stressful experience directly primed cognitive representations of threat in memory, and this activation then resulted in selective processing of threat stimuli in the environment.

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