%0 Journal Article %A Hasani, Jafar %A Rezaee, Hasan %T The assessment ofinformation processingspeed with regard tostate trait anxiety %J Jornal of Cognitive Psychology %V 2 %N 3 %U http://jcp.khu.ac.ir/article-1-2393-en.html %R %D 2014 %K InformationProcessing Speed, TraitAnxiety, Stat Anxiety, %X Emotionand cognitionconstructs constitute twobasic dimensions ofhuman psychologicalstructureandtheexplanation of performanceis onlypossibledue to theinteractionof thesetwo dimensions.The aimofthis study wasto investigate student’s information processingspeed based ontrait/stateanxiety.From large population ofNajaf Abadcityhighschoolstudentsaccording to inclusion criteria and extreme scores of distribution of Spielberger Trait and State AnxietyScale (EPQ-R)fourgroups(highstatanxiety, lowstatanxiety, hightraitanxiety&lowtraitanxiety N=15) wereselected and assessed by Speed-of-processing tests (Zahlen-Verbindungs-TestOswald & Roth, 1978) and Sitzwohl’s Coding Test (KDT)(1995). Theresultsofmultivariate analysis of varianceand Bonferenipost hoctestsshowed thatthere aresignificant differences between fourgroups in speed-of-processing andcoding .Theresults alsoshowed thatspeed-of-processinginstudents with low trait and low state anxietyis faster thanstudentswithhightrait and high stateanxiety. Based on the findingsof this studycan be said thatanxiety plays an important role incognitive functionsandinformationprocessing speedofandhigh anxiety(trait /state) causes interferenceininformation processingspeed, and ultimately cognitive functions. %> http://jcp.khu.ac.ir/article-1-2393-en.pdf %P 12-19 %& 12 %! %9 Research %L A-10-3-13 %+ %G eng %@ 2345-5780 %[ 2014