The present study investigated the performance of subjects high and low in anxiety given visual-based vs audio-tutorial instruction (N = 232 undergraduate social science students). A 3 × 2 factorial analysis of variance indicated that highly anxious students performed equally well in both conditions, while students low in anxiety performed well in the visual-based model. In both treatments subjects were superior to controls.
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