Stewart, Ian and Barnes-Holmes, Dermot
(2004)
Relational frame theory and analogical reasoning: Empirical investigations.
International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 4 (2).
pp. 241-262.
ISSN 1889-1780
Abstract
Much RFT-based research has concentrated on using derived relational responding to
model particular aspects of language and higher cognition. One by now particularly
successful example of this research is that which has modelled analogical language in
terms of the relating of derived relations. The current article describes the progress of
research in this area. Initial RFT-based models of analogy have successfully demonstrated
several important aspects of this phenomenon, including the presence of non-arbitrary
relations, the transformation of behavioral functions and the generativity of analogical
language in the naturalistic environment. More recent studies have provided an important
extension of this research by examining developmental trends in analogical responding.
Perhaps the most notable and unexpected outcome of this latter work is the revelation that
the behavioral tradition represented by RFT may by now have provided a precise definition
of analogical reasoning in the apparent absence of a similarly precise definition from the
cognitive/developmental tradition.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Analogical Reasoning; Relational Frame Theory; Equivalence-Equivalence;
Development; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology |
| Item ID: |
14814 |
| Depositing User: |
Prof. Dermot Barnes-Holmes
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| Date Deposited: |
13 Sep 2021 15:17 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy |
| Publisher: |
Asociación de Análisis del Comportamiento |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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| Use Licence: |
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