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I need to know why David stumbles badly through his lessons?
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If you are talking about David’s performance in front of the Murdstones, I think this is a great question (because Dickens gives us a great example!). Think of a time when you tried to perform in front of someone and you were afraid of not doing well. What is likely to have happened is that thoughts of “not doing well” filled your head and distracted you from actually doing well on the task. In the developmental and educational research literature, anxiety undermines performance in evaluative situations, in part, by interfering with attention. The anxious person’s attention in an evaluative situation is divided between task-relevant (e.g., remembering) and task-irrelevant (e.g., Mr. Murdstone) thoughts. In short… thoughts of what Mr. Murdstone would do if David did not do well, filled David’s head and prevented him from doing well!
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