A RESPONSE TO McLAUGWLIN, “THE MONITOR MODEL: SOME METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS”1

McLaughlin (1978) examines the Monitor Model and presents “a methodological critique of the research on which the Model is based” (p. 309). This paper is a response to that critique, and discusses various misrepresentations and misinterpretations of the work on Monitor Theory.

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