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Author of The Psychology of Winning Denis E. Waitley (born 1933), is an American motivational speaker , writer and consultant . [ 1 ] He has been recognized as the best-selling author of the audio series, The Psychology of Winning and books such as Seeds of Greatness and The Winner's Edge . [ 2 ]
The Psychology of Selling: Increase Your Sales Faster and Easier Than You Ever Thought Possible (1988), Thomas Nelson; ISBN 9780785288060. The Science of Self-Confidence (1991); ISBN 9781905953585. Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed (1993), Simon & Schuster; ISBN 9780684803319.
The strategy of defensive expectation supports the protection of one's sense of self-worth in several ways. By setting lower thus safer expectations, individuals will have less difficult achievement standards which allows an easier approach to successful performance. [10]
The Peabody Individual Achievement Test is a criterion based survey of an individual’s scholastic attainment. It can be administered to individuals between the ages of five and 22 years of age, and returns a grade range between Kindergarten and grade 12. [ 1 ]
An Encyclopedia of Psychology notes that “[g]enerally, these terms are not used by either educators or psychologists.” [3] While the concept of over- and underachievers has wide acceptance among practicing teachers, it remains a controversial topic on several points: Both are labels which implicitly affect teacher behavior.
David Clarence McClelland (May 20, 1917 – March 27, 1998) was an American psychologist, noted for his work on motivation Need Theory.He published a number of works between the 1950s and the 1990s and developed new scoring systems for the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and its descendants. [1]
The research team that Kaufman and his wife supervised while at the University of Georgia in 1978-79 developed the original Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) and several other psychological and educational tests, including the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement (K-TEA/NU), Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT), and the second editions of both ( KTEA-II and KBIT-2).
Throughout the book, Caplan details a series of observations that suggest a significant role for signaling in the return to education: Intelligence [5] [6] [7] and conscientiousness [8] are known predictors of educational and occupational success, and are relatively stable [9] [10] throughout a person's life