Ebook: Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition

Human language and our use of it to communicate or to understand the world requires deriving relations among events: for example, if A=B and A=C, then B=C. Relational frame theory argues that such performances are at the heart of any meaningful psychology of language and cognition. From a very early age, human beings learn relations of similarity, difference, comparison, time, and so on, and modify what they do in a given situation based on its derived relation to others situations and what is known about them.
This volume goes beyond theory and gives the empirical and conceptual tools to conduct an experimental analysis of virtually every substantive topic in human language and cognition, both basic and applied. As the term `post-Skinnerian' suggests, this volume challenges behavioral psychology to abandon many of the specific theoretical formulations of its most prominent historical leader in the domain of complex human behavior, especially in human language and cognition, and approach the field from a new direction.

The need for a pragmatically useful analysis of language and cognition is as enormous and varied as its extensions and applications. This volume will be of interest not only to behavior theorists but also to cognitive psychologists, therapists, educators, and anyone studying the human condition.

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Human language and our use of it to communicate or to understand the world requires deriving relations among events: for example, if A=B and A=C, then B=C. Relational frame theory argues that such performances are at the heart of any meaningful psychology of language and cognition. From a very early age, human beings learn relations of similarity, difference, comparison, time, and so on, and modify what they do in a given situation based on its derived relation to others situations and what is known about them.
This volume goes beyond theory and gives the empirical and conceptual tools to conduct an experimental analysis of virtually every substantive topic in human language and cognition, both basic and applied. As the term `post-Skinnerian' suggests, this volume challenges behavioral psychology to abandon many of the specific theoretical formulations of its most prominent historical leader in the domain of complex human behavior, especially in human language and cognition, and approach the field from a new direction.

The need for a pragmatically useful analysis of language and cognition is as enormous and varied as its extensions and applications. This volume will be of interest not only to behavior theorists but also to cognitive psychologists, therapists, educators, and anyone studying the human condition.

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Human language and our use of it to communicate or to understand the world requires deriving relations among events: for example, if A=B and A=C, then B=C. Relational frame theory argues that such performances are at the heart of any meaningful psychology of language and cognition. From a very early age, human beings learn relations of similarity, difference, comparison, time, and so on, and modify what they do in a given situation based on its derived relation to others situations and what is known about them.
This volume goes beyond theory and gives the empirical and conceptual tools to conduct an experimental analysis of virtually every substantive topic in human language and cognition, both basic and applied. As the term `post-Skinnerian' suggests, this volume challenges behavioral psychology to abandon many of the specific theoretical formulations of its most prominent historical leader in the domain of complex human behavior, especially in human language and cognition, and approach the field from a new direction.

The need for a pragmatically useful analysis of language and cognition is as enormous and varied as its extensions and applications. This volume will be of interest not only to behavior theorists but also to cognitive psychologists, therapists, educators, and anyone studying the human condition.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Language and Cognition: Constructing an Alternative Approach Within the Behavioral Tradition....Pages 3-20
Derived Relational Responding as Learned Behavior....Pages 21-49
Multiple Stimulus Relations and the Transformation of Stimulus Functions....Pages 51-71
Relations among Relations: Analogies, Metaphors, and Stories....Pages 73-86
Thinking, Problem-solving, and Pragmatic Verbal Analysis....Pages 87-101
Understanding and Verbal Regulation....Pages 103-117
Self and Self-directed Rules....Pages 119-139
Relational Frame Theory: A Pr?cis....Pages 141-154
Psychological Development....Pages 157-180
Education....Pages 181-195
Social Processes....Pages 197-209
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy....Pages 211-237
Religion, Spirituality, and Transcendence....Pages 239-251
Back Matter....Pages 253-285

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Human language and our use of it to communicate or to understand the world requires deriving relations among events: for example, if A=B and A=C, then B=C. Relational frame theory argues that such performances are at the heart of any meaningful psychology of language and cognition. From a very early age, human beings learn relations of similarity, difference, comparison, time, and so on, and modify what they do in a given situation based on its derived relation to others situations and what is known about them.
This volume goes beyond theory and gives the empirical and conceptual tools to conduct an experimental analysis of virtually every substantive topic in human language and cognition, both basic and applied. As the term `post-Skinnerian' suggests, this volume challenges behavioral psychology to abandon many of the specific theoretical formulations of its most prominent historical leader in the domain of complex human behavior, especially in human language and cognition, and approach the field from a new direction.

The need for a pragmatically useful analysis of language and cognition is as enormous and varied as its extensions and applications. This volume will be of interest not only to behavior theorists but also to cognitive psychologists, therapists, educators, and anyone studying the human condition.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Language and Cognition: Constructing an Alternative Approach Within the Behavioral Tradition....Pages 3-20
Derived Relational Responding as Learned Behavior....Pages 21-49
Multiple Stimulus Relations and the Transformation of Stimulus Functions....Pages 51-71
Relations among Relations: Analogies, Metaphors, and Stories....Pages 73-86
Thinking, Problem-solving, and Pragmatic Verbal Analysis....Pages 87-101
Understanding and Verbal Regulation....Pages 103-117
Self and Self-directed Rules....Pages 119-139
Relational Frame Theory: A Pr?cis....Pages 141-154
Psychological Development....Pages 157-180
Education....Pages 181-195
Social Processes....Pages 197-209
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy....Pages 211-237
Religion, Spirituality, and Transcendence....Pages 239-251
Back Matter....Pages 253-285
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