Math Anxiety and Working Memory Updating: Difficulties in Retrieving Numerical Information From Working Memory.
anxiety
math anxiety
memory retrieval
updating components
working memory
working memory updating
Journal
Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
29
01
2020
accepted:
19
03
2020
entrez:
25
4
2020
pubmed:
25
4
2020
medline:
25
4
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
This study aimed to determine whether math anxiety was related to working memory (WM) updating performance and, specifically, to the retrieval and substitution components of updating. A set of WM updating (WMU) tasks that involve different retrieval and substitution requirements were administered to 114 university students. In addition, participants completed a math anxiety assessment on two occasions: 1-2 weeks before and immediately prior to task administration to increase the likelihood of observing the relationship between math anxiety and updating performance. The results showed a relationship between math anxiety scores and updating performance. Math anxious individuals took longer and made more errors, especially on tasks that required retrieving information from WM. These results suggest that math anxious individuals are less efficient when it comes to accessing numerical information in WM. Consequently, they may struggle with math-related tasks that involve retrieving numerical information from WM.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32328018
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00669
pmc: PMC7160366
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
669Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Pelegrina, Justicia-Galiano, Martín-Puga and Linares.
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