Cognitive Slippage, Test Anxiety, and Responses in a Group Testing Situation

S ummary . In this investigation 72 female tertiary students completed questionnaires of their experienced cognitive interference, mind‐wandering, enjoyment, and task difficulty following the administration of Set I, and again following Set II, of the Advanced Progressive Matrices. Subjects were informed that Set I was a practice test. The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (Broadbent et al. , 1982) predicted levels of cognitive interference and mind‐wandering on Set II. The Test Anxiety Scale (Sarason, 1978) predicted cognitive interference, as well as actual test performance, on Set II. The results were interpreted in line with the view that the CFQ and TAS predict different aspects of the manner in which individuals react in stressful testing situations

Anxiety · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive test · Developmental psychology · Psychiatry · Set (abstract data type) · Test (biology) · Test anxiety · Clinical Psychology · Cognitive Functions and Memory · Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning · Mind wandering and attention · Psychology

• Cognitive interference

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• The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire Revisited

  James C Wallace, Steven J Kass et al.•The Journal of General Psychology•2002

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