Human Maze Performance as a Function of Increasing Levels of Anxiety

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Abstract
On the basis of scores on the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale, 101 male seminary students were divided into 7 groups representing increasing anxiety levels. The groups were then compared with respect to number of trials required and errors made in learning a stylus maze blindfolded. Mean performance on the maze was plotted against the Taylor measure on a 7-point scale from low to high levels of anxiety. "It can be predicted from the studies reported so far that further research on anxiety and learning will reveal some tasks for which there will be found no relationship to anxiety level and still others showing various other types of relationship including a reversal of the curves found in this study." 26 references.

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