{"pk":28915,"title":"Achievement Goals and Mental Arithmetic: The Role of Distributed Cognition","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The purpose of these studies was to investigate the role of\ndistributed cognition in defusing the impact of evaluative\npressure caused by performance-approach goals on mental\narithmetic performance. Performance-approach goals can\ngenerate worrying thoughts that can deplete working memory\nresources. However, some of these working memory\nlimitations can be compensated by off-loading the internal\ncognitive process to the external environment. We tested this\nprediction in two experiments. Participants carried out modular\narithmetic tasks in a performance-approach goal or mastery-\napproach goal condition crossed with interactivity or no\ninteractivity. Performance-approach goal manipulation\nhampered cognitive performance (accuracies), (Experiment 1).\nHowever, these negative effects were defused with the help of\ninteractivity (Experiment 2). Interestingly, the mastery-focused\nindividuals had a performance drop in the interactive condition\n(Experiment 1 and Experiment 2). Finally, experiment 2\nreported higher maths anxiety levels for the performance-\nfocused individuals. Reasons for the findings and future\nimplications will be discussed.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"achievement goals; working memory"},{"word":"mental\narithmetic; distributed cognition; interactivity"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6qt734d0","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Anna-Stiina","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wallinheimo","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Surrey","department":""},{"first_name":"Adrian","middle_name":"","last_name":"Banks","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Surrey","department":""},{"first_name":"Harriet","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tenenbaum","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Surrey","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28915/galley/18786/download/"}]}