Associations between evaluation anxiety, cognitive interference and performance on working memory tasks

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 823-832

  Coy, Brent ^a   O'Brien, William H ^b   Tabaczynski, Tracy ^b   Northern, Jebediah ^b   Carels, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 80053113727     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1765     Document Type: Article

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