Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition-关系框架理论

书名：Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition《关系框架理论》

作者：Steven C. Hayes (editor), Dermot Barnes-Holmes, Bryan Roche

简介：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.