Abstract:    Anxiety is a physiological and psychological state with physical, behavioral and cognitive manifestations. Anxiety can deteriorate cognitive performance (Derakshan & Eysenck, 2009). High anxiety has often been seen to have a negative impact on the working memory of the individual (Eysenck & Calvo, 1992). Anxiety often affects the performance on tasks that require attentional control. More specifically it has been reported as affecting the working memory of an individual. The review on the role of emotional context in cognitive performance of the individual has shown that it influences the cognitive output linked performance (Osaka et al.,2013). Studies on emotional context have also reported the impact of negative context on anxiety where negative context leads to performance decline. Anxiety has also been reported to reduce the performance when the working memory is loaded (Berggren et al., 2012). It has been seen that under the conditions of high cognitive load, working memory resources are often depleted and anxiety combined with high cognitive load leads to a performance decline (Shackman et al., 2006). Again, the present day focus is on quality performance and morale maintenance during performance. It also seems important to study the developmental changes in working memory.