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Àngels Colomé1,2, Maria Isabel Núñez-Peña2,3,4
1Section of Cognitive Processes, Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Frontiers in Psychology
|May 10, 2021
Summary
High math-anxious (HMA) individuals show more errors in number ordering tasks, especially with simple sequences. This suggests potential working memory and cognitive flexibility differences compared to low math-anxious (LMA) individuals.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Educational Psychology
- Neuroscience
Background:
- Math anxiety significantly impacts cognitive performance.
- Ordinal judgments are crucial for mathematical understanding.
- Working memory and cognitive flexibility are key executive functions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To compare ordinal judgment performance between high math-anxious (HMA) and low math-anxious (LMA) individuals.
- To investigate the role of working memory and cognitive flexibility in math anxiety.
- To identify specific task conditions where math anxiety affects performance.
Main Methods:
- Participants: 40 individuals (20 HMA, 20 LMA) identified by the Shortened Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (sMARS).
- Task: Judging ascending order of number triplets (one-digit/two-digit; counting, balanced, neutral conditions; ordered and unordered sequences).
- Assessments: Symmetry span test to evaluate working memory capacity.
Main Results:
- Both groups exhibited a reverse distance effect, performing worse on balanced than counting ordered trials.
- HMA participants made more errors on one-digit counting ordered triplets.
- HMA individuals showed lower accuracy in rejecting unordered D2 sequences, linked to symmetry span performance.
Conclusions:
- Math anxiety is associated with increased errors in specific ordinal judgment tasks, particularly simple ones.
- Impaired working memory and cognitive flexibility may underlie performance deficits in HMA individuals.
- HMA individuals struggle more with rejecting incorrect sequences, indicating reduced cognitive flexibility.
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