Dey M K
J Gen Psychol. 1978 Oct;99(2d Half):263-70. doi: 10.1080/00221309.1978.9710512.
In an experiment designed for further exploration of the effects of manifest anxiety upon anagram problem solving, two levels each of manifest anxiety score, letter transition probability of anagram, and Thorndike-Lorge frequency of solution word were factorially combined (N = 40 male and 40 female freshmen and sophomores). While corroborating the previous findings that anagram solving rate is positively related to solution word frequency and negatively related to anagram letter transition probability, the results have demonstrated a significant interaction of solution word frequency, though not of anagram letter transition probability, with manifest anxiety score. This interaction, as shown in the facilitative effect of manifest anxiety with anagrams derived from high-frequency words and the inhibitory effect with anagrams derived from low-frequency words, is consistent with Taylor's interpretation that manifest anxiety, as an emotionally based drive, multiplicatively interacts with habit strength.
在一项旨在进一步探究明显焦虑对变位词问题解决影响的实验中，将明显焦虑得分、变位词的字母转换概率以及解决词的桑代克 - 洛热频率这三个因素各分为两个水平进行析因组合（样本为40名男性和40名女性大一和大二学生）。虽然证实了之前的研究结果，即变位词解决率与解决词频率呈正相关，与变位词字母转换概率呈负相关，但结果表明，解决词频率与明显焦虑得分之间存在显著交互作用，而变位词字母转换概率与明显焦虑得分之间不存在显著交互作用。这种交互作用表现为，明显焦虑对高频词变位词有促进作用，对低频词变位词有抑制作用，这与泰勒的解释一致，即明显焦虑作为一种基于情绪的驱力，与习惯强度产生相乘交互作用。
