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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Anxious subjects"”.
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Behavioral inhibition and test anxiety: an empirical investigation of Gray's theory
… three computerized behavioral tasks. High test anxious subjects demonstrated more behavioral inhibition than low test anxious subjects, according to frequency measures on two of the three behavioral tasks. Group differences in latency measures were not found, however. High test anxious subjects …
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Neuropsychological effects of anxiety without depression on facial affect perception
Sixty right-handed men, half classified as anxious without depressive symptoms, the other half as nonanxious, participated in a tachistoscopic study of the influence of anxiety without depression on hemispheric processing of Ekman and Friesen's (1976) happy, angry, and neutral emotional faces. …
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The Role of Specific Attentional Influences in Anxiety and Perception
… in influencing perceptual closure in trait-anxious subjects. It was hypothesized that high trait-anxious subjects would perform less successfully on the closure task than the low trait-anxious subjects would, while exhibiting a higher eye-movement rate than the low trait-anxious sub jects. A …
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The relationship between test anxiety and academic performance of untreated test anxious college students
… if academic performance changes for test anxious subjects without treatment; and (d) if untreated test anxiety will decline over the course of a semester. The results were consistent with general findings that there is a significant negative correlation between anxiety and academic …
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A Comparison of the Intrasession Effects of Induced Anxiety and Anxiety Management Training on Physiological and Subjective Measures of Arousal.
… measures of arousal. In addition, the effect of subjects' level of trait anxiety on response to the treatment techniques was evaluated. Subjects were 24 college students who fell within either the high or low trait anxious category. Results suggested no statistical difference between the two …
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Effects of modeling and ongoing psychological stress on learning performance and state anxiety of high test anxious students
… effect on the learning performance of high test anxious subjects. The effectiveness of the above model was determined with high test anxious female subjects who were psychologically stressed at the time that they observed the model. Using the number of correct responses per trial and the number …
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Effect of low-grade anxiety on neural, psychophysical and physiological activity in an experimental pain paradigm
… also apply to healthy, non-treatment seeking subjects with low-grade anxiety. We therefore employed psychophysical, physiological and functional neuroimaging methods to investigate how inter-individual differences in inherent low-grade anxiety and perceived acute pain are related. Scientific …
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Teaching Speech Delivery Skills to Reduce Speech Anxiety
… behavioral rehearsal were used to teach speech anxious subjects speech delivery skills. Prior to and following each skill taught, a probe speech was conducted. Both objective measures of anxiety five (i.e. Timed Behavioral Checklist, duration of speech, and number of notes) and subjective …
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Comparison of the Effects of Introversion, Extraversion and Anxiety on Conditioning.
… on these tests were classified as either anxious extraverts, non-anxious extraverts, anxious introverts, or non-anxious introverts. Subjects learned under one or the other of two sets of conditions. One set--partial reinforcement, low UCS strength, and short CS-UCS interval--is expected to …
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The effects of experimentally-induced anxiety on the report of pain: a signal detection analysis
… to one of three experimental conditions. Subjects in the two anxiety groups received negative feedback on a vocabulary test and saw a neutral film or a gory film. Control subjects were given positive feedback on the word test and viewed the neutral film. It was expected that anxious …
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Differential responsiveness of repressors and sensitizers to stress
… Glover and Cravens (1974) for high and low trait-anxious subjects. This was regarded as behavioral support for the consistent high positive correlations found between measures or the two personality dimensions.
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An experimental investigation into the efficacy of multicomponent treatment programmes for test-anxious student nurses
… could be included in the nursing curricula. The subjects were 103 student nurses currently in their first year of the four-year Diploma in Nursing (General, Community and Psychiatry) and Midwifery at Carinus Nursing College CCNC). They had been randomly allocated to four classes at the College. …