Anxiety, Learning, and Memory: A Reconceptualization.

Eysenck, Michael W.

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ERIC Number: EJ213698

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1979-Dec

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Anxiety, Learning, and Memory: A Reconceptualization.

Eysenck, Michael W.

Journal of Research in Personality, v13 n4 p363-85 Dec 1979

From a review of empirical research, a new theoretical synthesis of anxiety's effect on learning and memory is proposed: anxiety always reduces processing effectiveness, by generating task-irrelevant processing activities, but this will not impair performance efficiency if sufficient compensatory effort is expended. (SJL)

Descriptors: Anxiety, Arousal Patterns, Aspiration, Cognitive Processes, Efficiency, Learning Processes, Memory, Psychological Studies, Research Reviews (Publications), Task Performance, Theories

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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