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Authors

Nekhoroshkova Aleksandra Nikolaevna, Institute of Medical and Biological Research, Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov (Arkhangelsk, Russia)

Gribanov Anatoly Vladimirovich, Institute of Medical and Biological Research, Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov (Arkhangelsk, Russia)

Deputat Irina Sergeevna, Institute of Medical and Biological Research, Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov (Arkhangelsk, Russia)

Abstract

The paper shows the relationship between visual-motor tests and intelligence tests in 275 children aged 8–11 years with normal (171 people) and high (104 people) levels of anxiety. It has been found that high anxiety most intensely affects the process of voluntary attention in girls aged 8–9 and boys aged 10–11 years, having a negative effect on the link of regulation and control over the progress of activity. This increases the number of errors while performing both the visual-motor tests and the intelligence test in these age and gender groups.

Keywords

children, anxiety, complex visual-motor response, Culture Fair Intelligence Test.

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