The effects of anxious responding on mental arithmetic and lexical decision task performance

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 647-665

  Hopko, Derek R ^a   McNeil, Daniel W ^b   Lejuez, C W ^c   Ashcraft, Mark H ^d   Eifert, Georg H ^e   Riel, Jim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxious responding; Lexical decision; Mental arithmetic

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AIR; ANXIETY; APTITUDE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; INHALATION; MALE; MATHEMATICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0242659193     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-6185(02)00240-2     Document Type: Article

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