alleryWho introduced the term mathemaphobia for phobia-like feelings about mathematics?
AFrank Richardson
BMary Fides Gough
CMark H. Ashcraft
DSian Beilock
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Mary Fides Gough
1. The academic study of math anxiety goes back to the 1950s.
2. Mary Fides Gough coined mathemaphobia then; Richardson built a rating scale, Ashcraft defined the anxiety, and Beilock used brain scans later.
3. So the term belongs to Gough.
_Source: Wikipedia, Mathematical anxiety, History_
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