Abstract

Attempted to confirm W. J. Levy's (see record 1973-24097-001) findings in a manual pen-and-paper maze test by having Ss find their way out of a maze that had been transferred into an automated environment. The ESP task was to avoid hidden barriers in the maze which had been selected by a random number generator. As was found previously in the manual test, the most significant scoring occurred in random behavior trials (RBTs)-those trials in which the S deviated from a straight-line path out of the maze when that was not the only way that appeared open to him. 2 studies with 6 Ss in each were conducted by separate Es. Each S completed 5 mazes. As expected, there was significant scoring on RBTs in both studies. In addition, in the RBTs in which the S made his responses within a 5-sec interval, scoring was significantly above chance, while in longer response -time categories it was only at a chance level. In non-RBTs, significant scores occurred in the longer response intervals, while the shorter response times produced only chance performance levels.