The effect of Test Wiseness and Test Anxiety on the emotional working memory capacity for Taibah University students

Abstract

The present study aimed to examine The impact of Test Wiseness and Test Anxiety on the emotional working memory capacity for Taibah University student. The study sample consisted of(74) students of the Faculty of Education-Taibah University, Saudi Arabia. The sample students come from following fields(special education, technical education, physical education and sport sciences) and the students ranged in age between (17-21) representing (20.2)for the age average and a standard deviation of (1.04). In order to measure Capacity of the emotional working memory, the following were applied: Stroop Tasks (prepared by the researcher), a list of the positive and negative emotional cases (prepared by the researcher. Test Wiseness Scale (prepared by Abdullah Soliman & Zain Radady, 2001)and the List of Test Anxiety (prepared by Nabil Alzahhar & Dennis Hoster, 1985). The study resulted in the following conclusions. There are no differences between students with levels of Test Wiseness (high, low) in the emotional working memory component (central executive control) depending on the case (consistent and non-consistent) in the situation (joyful and sad) as they are measured by the number of correct responses and time reaction. And there are differences between those with student test levels of Test Wiseness (high, low) in the emotional working memory component depending on the neutral case in the sad situation, and they are as measured by the number of correct responses and the reaction time for the benefit of students high Test Wiseness. And there are no differences between those with students' levels of Test Anxiety (high, low) in the emotional working memory component (central executive control) depending on the situation (neutral, non-consistent) in the situation (joyful and sad) as they are measured by the number of correct responses and the time of the reaction. There are no differences between those with students' Test Anxiety levels (high, low) in the emotional working memory component (central executive control) depending on the consistency of the case in the sad situation as they are measured by the time of reaction.