High math-anxious participants sacrifice accuracy for speed as problems become more difficult, interpreted as an avoidance-like effort to finish quickly¶
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q2 i? High-math-anxious participants often sacrifice accuracy for speed, especially on more difficult problems, interpreted as avoidance-like effort to finish the session quickly. → Mark H. Ashcraft and Jeremy A. Krause 2007
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Mark H. Ashcraft and Jeremy A. Krause 2007¶
Mark H. Ashcraft and Jeremy A. Krause. (2007). Working memory, math performance, and math anxiety. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14(2), 243-248. https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03194059
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The review reports, citing Faust, Ashcraft, & Fleck (1996), that "high-math-anxious participants often sacrifice accuracy for speed, especially as problems become more difficult", which the authors interpreted as an avoidance-like effort to finish quickly.
"Our results show that high-math-anxious participants often sacrifice accuracy for speed, especially as problems become more difficult, which we interpreted as an avoidance-like effort to finish the testing session as quickly as possible (Faust et al., 1996)"
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High math-anxious participants sacrifice accuracy for speed as problems become more difficult, interpreted as an avoidance-like effort to finish quickly |
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High math-anxious participants sacrifice accuracy for speed as problems become more difficult, interpreted as an avoidance-like effort to finish quickly |
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