Age-related impairment in associative learning: The role of anxiety, arousal and learning self-efficacy

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 675-686

  Fisk, John E ^a   Warr, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0030295402     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0191-8869(96)00120-1     Document Type: Article

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