Study: Your Perspective About Tests Can Make Or Break You: "i"
Several stress management techniques can work:
Visualizations: Athletes use visualizations regularly to improve their performance. Just imagine yourself succeeding, and you're more likely to. Here are some tips.
Change Your Self Talk: A take-away message from this study is that what you say to yourself about what you experience--how you interpret your stress response, for example--can make a huge difference in your outcome. Changing how you habitually interpret things can have an impact on your test scores, as well as other areas of life. Chang your thoughts, change your life, the saying goes. Here's how.
Banish Perfectionism: Those who have perfectionistic tendencies often put more pressure on themselves to do a job that's, well, perfect. This can increase test anxiety, intensify stress responses, and lead to more negative outcomes. Test yourself to see if you're a perfectionist (hint: if you think you are, you may be right!), and see what you can do to overcome perfectionism.
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Source:
Beilock, S. Choke or Thrive? The Relation between Salivary Cortisol and Math Performance Depends on Individual Differences in Working Memory and Math Anxiety. Journal of Emotion, Autust 2011.
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