General life stress and test anxiety are often viewed by educators as separate concerns that affect the performance of students. Jeri Wine (1982), however, views many common elements of life as situations for eval uation People are continually being evalu ated in many circumstances that can produce speech anxiety, social anxiety, dating anxiety, sexual performance anxiety, and test anxiety. Persons high in evaluation anxiety internally react to cues with habitual, overlearned, self oriented cognitions. These people may begin to tell themselves such things as: I can't do this.'' I'm not smart enough.'' I never was a good student.
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