Anxiety and verbal learning in typically developing primary school children: Less efficient but equally effective.

CONCLUSION: In a group of typically developing children, learning on the early, more demanding learning trials of a verbal learning task was vulnerable to heightened anxiety. However, the extra opportunities to learn on later trials enabled more anxious children to learn as much as their less anxious peers. While they learnt less efficiently, they learnt equally effectively. PMID: 33222155 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The British Journal of Educational Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Br J Educ Psychol Source Type: research