10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERSEVERATOR»
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perseverator in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
perseverator and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Structure of Human Personality (Psychology Revivals)
... an extreme perseverator. The extreme non-perseverator, though appearing
among the difficult children more frequently than the average perseverator, does
not emerge from the questionnaire analysis with anything approaching the ...
2
I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles
In examining the role of original composition in the folk process, she cites
Eleanor Long's “four basic types of folk artistry”—“perseverator,” “confabulator,” “
rationalizer,” and “integrator.” Niles's conscious transformation of folk material
leading to ...
3
Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and ...
Perseveration — a word I find especially illuminating, to persevere too much, as I
take it — reflects a rigidity on the part of the perseverator. A failure of imagination,
a failure of metonymy, of association, free or otherwise. The perseverator can ...
Charles Baxter, Peter Turchi, 2001
4
The Journal of Mental Science
It becomes clear on the most superficial examination that the extreme
perseverator tends to be a very different person from the extreme non-
perseverator, and that the intermediate perseverators, as a class, are distinct from
and in some ...
5
Research Series - Australian Council for Educational Research
Some points on which they differ are : Extreme Perseverator 1. Girls either settle
down very quickly after a change in occupation or are particularly slow ; boys
take a long time to settle down. 2. Girls are easily angered; boys are hard to
anger.
Australian Council for Educational Research, 1934
6
The Cattell Controversy: Race, Science, and Ideology
In a subsequent paper a year later Cattell even provided a developmental
explanation for the genesis of these diflerences: the low perseverator, “brought
up in a framework of consistent strict and objective discipline,” turned out to be “
less ...
7
The Entrepreneurial Personality: A Social Construction
2 Controlled Perseverator – emotionally stable and able to absorb stress; has an
analytical problem-solving orientation. This type could be described as an
entrepreneur who applies their affective potential in a well-directed manner. 3
Distant ...
8
Is Saying "that was Wrong" Enough?: Factors Affecting ...
Opposites switchers (n = 11, 19%) required some postswitch feedback,
classifying an average of 64% of postswitch trials correctly after 4.0 incorrect trials
, but responded to. 3 Six cases: one eventual switcher, one perseverator, three ...
Katharine A. Blackwell, 2007
9
The Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology
Not only the extreme perseverator but also the extreme non-perseverator tend to
lack perseverance and self-control and to be obstinate, unreliable, ' touchy,' and '
difficult.' Whereas the perseverator tends to be ' nervous,' sensitive, effeminate ...
10
Report on the Teaching of History and Civics in Victorian ...
Some points on which they differ are : Extreme Perseverator 1. Girls either settle
down very quickly after a change in occupation or are particularly slow ; boys
take a long time to settle down. 2. Girls are easily angered; boys are hard to
anger.
Alice Hoy, W. D. Forsyth, 1934
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERSEVERATOR»
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perseverator is used in the context of the following news items.
Approach Steppenwolf's The Qualms without reservations
He's quoted at one point saying that Steppenwolf Theatre artistic director Martha Lavey "has referred to me as a 'perseverator': I enjoy things ... «Chicago Reader, Jul 14»
Learning To Be A Power Listener
The Perseverator: Of course, the problem with speeches and loaded or rhetorical questions is that they are the very definition of one-way ... «Fast Company, Mar 12»
