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Systematic Desensitization of Test Anxiety in Junior High Students
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Deffenbacher, Jerry L.; Kemper, Calvin C. – School Counselor, 1974
In this study, junior high students receive group desensitization for their problems of test anxiety; improvement was measured by changes in grade point average. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Behavior Modification, Behavioral Science Research
Applying Observational Learning to Student Problems, Such as Examination Anxiety, in School Settings.
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Mann, Jay – 1971
This symposium paper describes 2 experiments in which the principles of observational learning were applied in school settings to the treatment of 2 separate groups of test-anxious junior high school students. The first experiment was designed to test the assumption that the counter-conditioning responses thought to occur in systematic…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research