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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hayes, Steven C. (Editor), Barnes-Holmes, Dermot. (Editor), Roche, Bryan. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2001.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Artificial intelligence.; Clinical psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

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...

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.