The Relationship Among Working Memory, Math Anxiety, and...

The Relationship Among Working Memory, Math Anxiety, and Performance Mark H. Ashcraft and Elizabeth P. Kirk Cleveland State University OBJECTIVE: The general focus of this research is to examine performance in standard cognitive frameworks and online tasks. The researchers hope to examine the influence that math anxiety exerts on mathematical cognition and to identify the processing components that are so influenced. HYPOTHESIS: The higher the math anxiety, the lower the working memory capacity, the higher the probability to get a low performance. VARIABLES: IV – math anxiety DV –working memory capacity, performance The independent variable math anxiety is manipulated into three levels: high, medium, low. The level of†¦show more content†¦* The subjects were assigned to the treatment are mixed ---- in experiment 1 the lower level undergraduate psychology classes were recruited and they are to receive a credit for participating, in experiment 2 they have some subject from experiment 1 and the additional subjects volunteered their participation in return for extra credit, while in experiment 3 did again get additional subjects which also undergraduate psychology graduates . * The researchers used ANOVA --- column 3 of table 2 (page 228) presents the correlation between sMARS and the remaining variables, using math anxiety group (low, medium, high) as a between-subjects variable. They also used ANOVA two-way to see if the decline in capacity differed as a function of type of span task. * The objective of the study was realized for they have gathered two general remarks form their experimen ts and they have explained well the conclusions they have made regarding the relationship among working memory, math anxiety and performance. Far Eastern University Nicanor Reyes St. Sampaloc, Manila SY 09-10 JOURNAL CRITIQUE Submitted by: Castro, Maria Joy M. SY0532 Submitted to: Prof. Ma. Theresa O. del Rosario, Ph.D Department of