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 eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2001.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Artificial intelligence.; Clinical psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

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...