LEARNING AND TWO KINDS OF ANXIETY.

The article presents a study which investigates the impacts of threat and test-defined anxiety on rote learning and examines the avoidance and nonavoidance threats. The Taylor Scale of Manifest Anxiety and a series of five preliminary training trials were given to 130 students in elementary psychology. It was found out that the students who got high and low scores on the Taylor Scale of Manifest Anxiety were less affected by threat, but the performance of the low score students was impaired by the nonavoidance threat and improved by the avoidance threat.