ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
An experimental study of the effect of anxiety on lexical processing of college students: evidence from true-false word judgment and semantic category judgment tasks.
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Introduction: This study examined the effect of anxiety on lexical processing among college students with anxiety in China. Methods: We conducted two experiments in a stressful environment to induce anxiety. Experiment 1 investigated the effect of anxiety on lexical processing through a true-false word judgment task, while Experiment 2 further explored this effect using a semantic category judgment task. Results: Both experiments revealed no significant difference in the accuracy of lexical judgments between participants with high and low anxiety. However, there was a notable difference in the reaction times for lexical judgments, with high-anxiety participants exhibiting longer reaction time compared to their low-anxiety counterparts. This indicates a decrease in the efficiency of lexical processing among those with high anxiety. Conclusion: This study confirms that anxiety diminishes lexical processing efficiency without affecting lexical judgment performance. These findings support the processing efficiency theory.
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