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Maze tests were designed particularly for behavior science but are used more recently in many areas of the sciences. This maze test is used significantly as it provides a measure of ability to groups that such intelligence test as Binet or Weschelser scale do not examine. Measuring such qualities like self-control, tact, prudence, and planning. Performance on this test is used to measure effects of chlorpromazine, a "tranquilizing", and to find whether such effect was permanent or temporary. To determine the effects of this particular drug scientist statistically compared the two groups looking for significant differences. It was concluded that chlorpromazine had no significant effect on the performance of subject during the maze test as well as clinical behavior. In a neuropharmacology study the Porteus maze along with the Tower of London test was used with long lasting survivors of severe head trauma. The results of this study concluded that individuals with frontal lobe lesions solved the Porteus maze slower than non-frontal and demographically matched individuals. There has been a reemergence in concentration in this a particular test as a measure of social adjustment. It was recognized that the Maze is useful as a socio-industrial index and as a measure of social inadequacy. The Maze has also demonstrated sensitivity to loss of social function and planning capacity following psychosurgery. The later applications of the test has shown the deficit regained most likely due to practice-learning.
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