The effect of pressure on high- and low-working-memory students: An elaboration of the choking under pressure hypothesis

Sample Fifty‐three third and fourth graders from China participated in this study. Method Participants' working memory (WM) was assessed by the Automated Operation Span task. Then, they solved mental addition problems of different types under low‐ and high‐pressure conditions. Performance was a...

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Published in:	British journal of educational psychology Vol. 84; no. 2; pp. 226 - 238
Main Authors:	Wang, Zuowei, Shah, Priti
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Leicester Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2014 Wiley-Blackwell British Psychological Society
Subjects:	Addition Analysis of Variance Biological and medical sciences Child Children Children & youth China Cognitive Processes Comparative Analysis Difficulty Level Educational psychology Elaboration Elementary School Students Elementary schools Environmental Influences Female Foreign Countries Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Grade 4 Guessing (Tests) Heuristic Heuristics Humans Learning outcomes Male math performance Mathematics - methods Mathematics - statistics & numerical data Memory Memory, Short-Term - classification Mental Computation pressure Problem Solving - classification Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Pupil and student. Academic achievement and failure Reaction Time Short Term Memory Strategies Stress Variables Stress, Psychological - psychology Students - psychology Students - statistics & numerical data Task performance Task Performance and Analysis Working memory working memory capacity China Human Memory Problem solving Strategy Cognition Primary school Working memory Performance Child Stress math performance pressure children working memory capacity
ISSN:	0007-0998, 2044-8279
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