Anxiety and . Motivation as Factors in Inhibitory Potential
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The hypothesis that subjects' anxiety level will affect their tendency to accumulate reactive inhibition was tested. The study employed the Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale to identify 120 high and low scorers and an inverted-number printing task to quantify reactive inhibition. The expectation was partially confirmed. With highly motivating instructions, high anxiety subjects accumulated more reactive inhibition than low anxiety subjects; but with low motivation the high and low anxiety groups did not differ. Anxiety level apparently becomes a potential determiner of inhibitory potential only after a critical level of motivation has been reached. Anxiety and Motivation as Factors in Inhibitory Potential'
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