أثر انفعال القلق على أداء الذاكرة العاملة اللفظية والبصرية عند الطفل
The aim of the research was to reveal the effect of emotions, especially anxiety and neutral emotion, on the working memory performance of ten-year-old children. The researcher divided the subjects into two groups: control and experimental, equal in number and gender (each group included 40 boys and girls). The research was based on measuring the performance of the verbal, visual structures of working memory, on the amplitude test of regular numbers, and the Corsi cubes test. In addition, the international system of standard emotional images and sounds was used to elicit anxiety and neutral emotion. The working memory performance was compared between the experimental group and the control one whose members were exposed to an anxiety and neutral stimulus, respectively - audio-visual tapes - based on the descriptive approach comparing the values of means and standard deviations, as well as the values of the t-test for two independent groups. The analysis of the results revealed that there were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the post-measurement of working memory tests among the members of the experimental group after displaying the anxiety stimulus and the control group after showing the neutral stimulus in favor of the control group, due to the Anxiety variable at the limit α=0,01. Accordingly, the emotion of fear affects the amplitudes of the phonological loop, the visual-spatial notebook. These results are consistent with the conclusions of studies that dealt with the relationship between the emotions variable and the working memory of the child. (Published abstract)