The effect of the worry and emotionality components of test anxiety was examined in a picture recognition task. Subjects performed orienting tasks that required a forced-choice decision concerning some physical attribute (e.g., colorfulness) or some abstract attribute (e.g., geographic locale). The abstract-feature decisions led to better recognition on an unannounced test, compared to the physical-feature task. Test anxiety had no effect on recognition performance.
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