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...

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Other Authors: Hayes, Steven C. (Editor), Barnes-Holmes, Dermot (Editor), Roche, Bryan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2001, 2001
Edition:1st ed. 2001
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The Basic Account
  • Language and Cognition: Constructing an Alternative Approach Within the Behavioral Tradition
  • Derived Relational Responding as Learned Behavior
  • Multiple Stimulus Relations and the Transformation of Stimulus Functions
  • Relations among Relations: Analogies, Metaphors, and Stories
  • Thinking, Problem-solving, and Pragmatic Verbal Analysis
  • Understanding and Verbal Regulation
  • Self and Self-directed Rules
  • Relational Frame Theory: A Précis
  • Extensions and Applications
  • Psychological Development
  • Education
  • Social Processes
  • Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Transcendence