Psychology of Language and Learning
There are very few psychologists living today who have contributed more to the advancement of psychology, in general, and to the psychology of language and thought, in particular, than O. Hobart Mowrer. It would indeed be ludicrous to attempt to list the
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COGNITION AND LANGUAGE A Series in Psycho linguistics Series Editor:
R. W. Rieber
CLINICAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS Theodore Shapiro CRAZY TALK: A Study of the Discourse of Schizophrenic Speakers Sherry Rochester and J. R. Martin PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE AND LEARNING O. Hobart Mowrer
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Psychology if Language and Learning Edited by
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Hobart Mowrer
University of Illinois Champaign- Urbana, Illinois
PLENUM PRESS . NEW YORK AND LONDON
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Psychology of learning and language. Includes index. 1. Psycholinguistics. 2. Learning, Psychology of. 1. Mowrer, Orval Hobart, 1907P37.P79 401'.9 79-17959 ISBN 978-1-4684-3652-5
ISBN 978-1-4684-3652-5 00110.1007/978-1-4684-3650-1
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Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1980
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To Linda, Kathryn, and Toddwhose language learning was observed by their father and mother with wonder and delight
Foreword
There are very few psychologists living today who have contributed more to the advancement of psychology, in general, and to the psychology of language and thought, in particular, than O. Hobart Mowrer. It would indeed be ludicrous to attempt to list the many and varied accomplishments and contributions that Dr. Mowrer has made to his profession over the years. Even the selected essays that are in this volume can only suggest a modicum of his remarkable, vital, and ongoing contribution to the psychology of language and thought. Furthermore, the chapters in this book, which were published over a period of some twenty-five years, clearly illustrate that Dr. Mowrer was concerned not only with basic research, but that he also had an interest in its application. These chapters also point to the fact that although Dr. Mowrer's orientation was primarily that of a "behaviorist" at the onset, his constant attempts to revise knowledge in this field and broaden its scope make it virtually impossible for us to classify him as a behaviorist in the narrow meaning of that term. The chapter on mental imagery, for example, written only a few years ago, serves to illustrate this point. In addition, the Autism Theory of Speech Development (see Chapter 4), one of Dr. Mowrer's most important contributions that is all too often overlooked in today's literature, integrates the concepts of hope and fear into an already rich theoretical framework of language learning, giving both shape and power to the Second
