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

by Steven C. Hayes, Bryan Roche, Dermot Barnes-Holmes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475775210
• ISBN13: 9781475775211
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"