Wordsworth's "Ode to Duty": Miltonic Influence and Verbal Performance

To determine the equivalence and relationship of Peabody and WISC scores in a retarded population, 49 students in a class for the educable retarded were tested. The Peabody IQ consistently over-estimated WISC Verbal, Performance, and Full Scale IQs. Intercorrelations between IQs from the two tests were disappointingly low. A more cautious approach to use of the Peabody as a “substitute” measure for the WISC is suggested.

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Comparison of the WISC-R Patterns of Children of Average and Exceptional Ability

Psychological Reports ◽

10.1177/003329418305300201 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 539-544 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

H. P. J. Schmidt ◽

D. H. Saklofske

Keyword(s):

Mentally Retarded ◽

Learning Disabled ◽

Group Differences ◽

Disabled Children ◽

Normal Children ◽

Exceptional Groups ◽

Diagnostic Usefulness ◽

Verbal Performance

This study investigated the diagnostic usefulness of WISC-R Verbal-Performance IQ discrepancies, subtest scatter, and Bannatyne's subtest recategorizations with educationally normal and exceptional groups of children. The subjects for this study were four groups of 74 learning disabled, 24 mentally retarded, 94 gifted, and 85 educationally normal children. No significant differences in discrepancies in Verbal-Performance IQs occurred among the four groups although learning disabled children more often showed Performance > Verbal discrepancies. No differences were found between the samples in the amount of subtest scatter. Group differences were noted in the patterns of scores on Bannatyne's recategorizations.

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Introversion/Extroversion, Time Stress, and Caffeine: Effect on Verbal Performance

The Measurement of Personality ◽

10.1007/978-94-011-6168-8_62 ◽

1976 ◽

pp. 469-470

Author(s):

William Revelle ◽

Phyllis Amaral ◽

Susan Turriff

Keyword(s):

Time Stress ◽

Verbal Performance

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Interpreting WISC-R Verbal-Performance Discrepancies: A Note for Practitioners

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1983.56.1.96 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 56 (1) ◽

pp. 96-98 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Fred M. Grossman

Keyword(s):

Normal Population ◽

Frequency Data ◽

Standardization Sample ◽

Reporting Discrepancies ◽

And Performance ◽

Verbal Performance

Information relating to the significance of WISC-R Verbal-Performance IQ discrepancies and the frequencies of such differences in the standardization sample have been available to practitioners for several years. With regard to the magnitude of significant discrepancies -within the normal population, such data are often misunderstood and misinterpreted by clinicians. Specifically, the nondirectional aspect of significant frequencies reported in the literature is often misconstrued and interpreted incorrectly. An example of a common misinterpretation is presented as well as suggestions for remedying inaccuracies in reporting discrepancies between Verbal and Performance IQs and frequency data.

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Zero Effect of Crowding on Arousal and Performance: On ‘Proving’ the Null Hypothesis

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1995.81.1.72 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 81 (1) ◽

pp. 72-74 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

François Rousseau ◽

Lionel Standing

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Direct Effect ◽

Null Hypothesis ◽

Production Performance ◽

Second Languages ◽

And Performance ◽

Zero Effect ◽

Verbal Production ◽

Verbal Performance

This study examined the effect of crowded versus uncrowded conditions upon pulse and self-rated arousal, and upon verbal production performance in subjects' first and second languages. Participants were 52 francophone college students. Arousal estimates were identical for crowded and noncrowded conditions as was verbal performance, thereby contradicting the theories of Zajonc (1965) and Freedman and Perlick (1979) in which crowding is viewed as an activating and intensifying stimulus. Crowding itself appears to have no direct effect on arousal or behaviour as measured.

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Producing Diaspora

In Hip Hop Time ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190913489.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 160-184

Author(s):

Catherine M. Appert

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Hip Hop ◽

The United States ◽

Indigenous Music ◽

Material Gain ◽

The Face ◽

The Relationship ◽

Musical Elements ◽

Verbal Performance

This chapter shows how palimpsestic practices of hip hop genre produce diasporic connections. It describes how hip hop practices of layering and sampling delink indigenous musical elements from traditional communicative norms to rework them in hip hop, where they signify rootedness and locality in ways consistent with hip hop practice in the United States. It demonstrates that this process relies on applications of hip hop time (musical meter) as being fundamentally different from indigenous music, whose local appeal is contrasted with hip hop’s global intelligibility. It outlines how hip hop concepts of flow free verbal performance from lyrical referentiality to render it a musical element. It argues that these practices of hip hop genre, in their delinking of sound and speech, reshape understandings of the relationship between commercialism and referentiality, and suggests that voice therefore should be understood to encompass artists’ agency in pursuing material gain in the face of socioeconomic struggle.

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Memory, Desire, and “Magic”: Smará in the Atharvaveda

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel11090434 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (9) ◽

pp. 434

Author(s):

Signe Cohen

Keyword(s):

Religious Context ◽

Traditional Definition ◽

The Many ◽

Definition Of ◽

Analytical Category ◽

Ritual Speech ◽

Verbal Performance

This essay analyzes the interconnection between memory, desire, and verbal performance in the three so called “women’s love spells” in Atharvaveda 6.130–132. This study unpacks the many interconnected meanings of the term smará, which is used repeatedly in these poems, “memory”, “desire”, or “efficacious ritual speech”. I challenge the traditional definition of these texts as “magical” and argue that applying “magic” as an analytical category to ancient Hindu texts is deeply problematic. Instead, I propose that these poems are better understood in their historical and religious context as examples of ritual speech.

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