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Phonological working memory and reading in test anxiety

M G Calvo1, M W Eysenck

  • 1University of La Laguna, Departamento de Psicologia Cognitiva, Tenerife, Spain.

Memory (Hove, England)
|May 1, 1996
PubMed
Summary

High test anxiety impacts reading comprehension, especially when reading word-by-word. The articulatory loop may compensate for anxious readers when other strategies are unavailable.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Educational Psychology

Background:

  • Test anxiety can affect cognitive performance, including reading comprehension.
  • The articulatory loop is a component of working memory involved in verbal processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of the articulatory loop in reading comprehension for individuals with high test anxiety.
  • To examine how interference conditions affect comprehension in anxious versus non-anxious readers.

Main Methods:

  • Participants with high or low test anxiety read texts presented sentence-by-sentence or word-by-word.
  • Concurrent tasks included articulatory suppression and irrelevant speech to interfere with the articulatory loop.
  • Comprehension was measured under different interference conditions.

Main Results:

  • High-anxiety subjects exhibited more overt articulation, particularly with irrelevant speech.
  • An interaction between anxiety and interference revealed poorer comprehension for anxious subjects under word-by-word presentation with interference.
  • Comprehension was equivalent between anxiety groups in the no-interference condition.

Conclusions:

  • The articulatory loop plays a compensatory role in reading comprehension for anxious individuals.
  • This compensatory mechanism becomes more critical when other reading strategies are hindered.

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