The effect of manifest anxiety on a concept formation task, a nondirected learning task, and on timed and untimed intelligence tests.
- 1 January 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Consulting Psychology
- Vol. 20 (3) , 176-178
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0041481
Abstract
Psychiatric and medical patients of at least normal intelligence, without psychosis or suspected cortical damage, were given tests such as the Taylor MAS, the WAIS, Raven''s Progressive Matrices, the Bender Gestalt, and the Bender Gestalt Recall Test. One finding was: "Ss who received high scores on the MAS obtained significantly lower scores on the timed than on the untimed subtests of the WAIS." One suggestion is that anxiety has a disruptive effect on abstraction, incidental learning, and timed intelligence tests.Keywords
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- Cognitive, affective, and psychopathological correlates of the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale.Journal of Consulting Psychology, 1956