While most organizations could easily outstrip their current productivity, most managers don't communicate expectations of high achievement in a way that produces results. After analyzing the psychological barriers that keep managers from expecting and demanding more from their subordinates, the author outlines a five-point plan to upgrade…

Results of an examination given under two levels of anxiety are discussed in their assessment of relationships between trait anxiety, transitory anxiety, mood, and performance. (Author/KM)

The effectiveness of verbal strategies on children's performance of tasks requiring persistence was investigated among 36 male and female preschool children ranging in age from 4 years to 5 years, 5 months. Two tasks designed to measure persistence ability were sequentially presented to the children: one task required the child to drop wooden…

A study employing a repeated measure crossover design found that 34 preschool handicapped students performed significantly better with familiar than unfamiliar examiners on tasks requiring a high level of symbolic mediation. No such differential performance was found on items demanding a low level of symbolic mediation. Differential performance in…

This selected bibliography of articles and books concerns the effects of industrial climate on research performance. (HW)

R. Martens' hypothesis that an audience acts as a stimulus to elicit arousal or drive in the performance of an individual, which in turn enhances the emission of the dominant habit, is reexamined. Where incorrect responses are dominant, learning of a novel task will be inhibited, or at least improvement will not be as rapid as for individuals…

Law enforcement today is under intense and increasing public pressure regarding allegations of wrongdoing such as wiretapping, illegal entry, and unlawful surveillance. Meanwhile, law enforcement must continue its main task of investigation and prosecution of criminal offenses in which the prosecutor plays a key role. In many communities the…

This study quantitatively analyzes selected aspects of the skating strides of above-average and below-average ability skaters. Subproblems were to determine how stride length and stride rate are affected by changes in skating velocity, to ascertain whether the basic assumption that stride length accurately approximates horizontal movement of the…

In a one try at success condition, prisoners high in an Achievement-low in test anxiety (HL) performed significantly better than those low in n Achievement-high in test anxiety (LH) in a noncontingent but not a contingent path. These results are consistent with previous findings involving prisoners and at variance with results derived from…

Weiner, et al, (1971) presented a model of achievement-related behavior which outlined how causal ascriptions might mediate between stimulus conditions and achievement-oriented responses. This model assumed that individuals allocate the causes of success and failure to four elements (ability, effort, luck and task difficulty), and that each of…

THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY TO READING ACHIEVEMENT WAS STUDIED BY APPLICATION OF "A BALANCE THEORY OF COORDINATION." INTERLOCKING SURVEYS WERE CONDUCTED BY ADMINISTERING QUESTIONNAIRES AND INTERVIEWS TO A SAMPLE OF 4,402 PEOPLE, CONSISTING OF CHILDREN FROM 18 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, THEIR PARENTS, THEIR NEIGHBORS, AND SCHOOL…

Suggestions are made for improving students' performance in doing homework. (JD)