Test anxiety, birth order, and quality of feedback as variables affecting cognition in conformity situations

Abstract

Considerable interest has centered around test anxiety in recent years, as a personality variable relating to situational, physiological and other personality variables (Sarason, 1960). Of special interest has been the relation of test anxiety to task performance under various conditions of task complexity (Sarason and Palola, 1960), motivational instructions involving stress and evaluation (Sarason and Harmatz, 1965), and schedules of reinforcement (Sarason and Ganzer, 1962, 1963).