Establishing Transfer of Compound Control in Children: A Stimulus Control Analysis

Carpentier, Franck; Smeets, Paul M.; Barnes‐Holmes, Dermot

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“…Carpentier et al (2002aCarpentier et al ( , 2003b reported that 5-year-old children readily pass equivalence tests but, in contrast to older children and adults, seldom pass equivalence-equivalence tests. These findings are consistent with many studies in which analogical performance increases with age and indicate that stimulus equivalence precedes equivalence-equivalence .…”

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“…After being trained on conditional A-B and A-C discrimination tasks and on a simple O-discrimination task (01+/02-), most subjects (a) selected BC compounds with same-class elements in a BC discrimination test (e.g., B1C1+/B1C2-), and (b) matched BC compounds with other BC compounds and with unitary 0 stimuli of same discriminative functions (e.g., B1C1-B3C3, B1C2-B2C3; 01-B3C3, 02-B2C3) . Because (a) the BC-Face (Carpentier et aI., 2003b) and O-BC performances (Carpentier et aI., 2004) could have resulted only from matching same discriminative functions, and (b) previous studies have shown that adults and children readily relate stimuli to any other stimuli of same discriminative functions (Carpentier, Smeets, & Barnes-Holmes, 2002a, 2002c, 2003aPerez-Gonzalez, 1994;Perez-Gonzalez & Serna, 2003), it should be assumed that the BC-BC performances were based on the same process.…”

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Matching Derived Functionally-Same Stimulus Relations: Equivalence-Equivalence and Classical Analogies

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Previous studies have shown that, after being trained on A-B and A-C matching tasks, subjects match not only functionally-same Band C stimuli (stimulus equivalence), but also BC compounds with sameclass elements and BC compounds with different-class elements (equivalence-equivalence) . Similar performances are required in classical analogies (a : b :: c : d). Therefore, some researchers have argued that equivalence-equivalence can serve as a behavior analytic model for analogical reasoning. Recent studies, however, have shown that compounds with same-class elements and different-class elements have different discriminative (S+, S-) properties. Hence, matching of same discriminative functions may have occurred. The present study aimed to design an equivalence-equivalence test in which the designated correct performances cannot be attributed to a process other than matching functionally-same relations. In Experiment 1 , subjects were trained to relate X and Y stimuli to colors and X and l stimuli to forms. After equivalence was assessed (Y-Xl) , the subjects received an equivalence-equivalence test in which only compounds with same-class elements were used: an XY or Xl compound as sample and an XY and Xl compound as comparisons (e.g., X1Y1-X2Y2IX2Z2). All subjects passed the equivalenceequivalence test. However, as reported by 1 subject, and was later demonstrated in Experiment 2, these equivalence-equivalence tasks could be solved by matching functionally-same stimuli (e.g., Y1-color-Y2, hence Y1-Y2). Experiment 3 demonstrated that this problem also exists in classical analogy tasks. When given the analogy tasks used by Goswami and Brown (1990) , all subjects selected the correct dterm option on the basis of the b-term alone (equivalence) . In Experiment 4, the equivalence-equivalence test was further modified to permit differentiation of matching functionally-same relations from matching functionally-same stimuli. All 5 subjects readily matched functionally-same equivalence relations, thus evidenced equivalenceequivalence or analogical reasoning.Correspondence should be sent to Paul M. Smeets,

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“…Taking in to the context of health behavior change, RFT provides advantages in the degree of precision made possible when analyzing verbal contributions to complex human behavior. When applied to the topic of health related behaviors, it provides a preliminary behavioral account for how specific verbal rules come to exert control over responding ( Barnes and Keenan, 1993 ; Carpentier et al, 2002 ). For example, the sound of the word “cigarette” is placed in a “frame of coordination” or “sameness” with a thin cylinder of finely cut tobacco rolled in paper.…”

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Health Behavior Change: A Contextually-Driven Approach

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Promoting health behavior change presents an important challenge to theory and research in the field of health psychology. In this paper, we introduce a context-driven approach, the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model which is built on Relational Frame Theory. The ACT-based intervention aims to promote individuals’ new health behavior patterns through the improvement of the key construct of psychological flexibility, which is defined as the ability to contact the present moment more fully with acceptance and mindfulness as a conscious human being. Building on the psychological flexibility model, implemented through the six core ACT processes, individuals improve maintenance of long term health behavior change through committed acts in service of chosen values while acknowledging and accepting the existence of contrary thoughts, rules, and emotions as part of themselves but not determinant of their behaviors. Taking advantage of this context-driven approach of health behavior change, we recommend researchers and practitioners to design their health behavior change intervention programs based on ACT.

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“…RFT offers a detailed analysis of the influence of language on complex human behavior by analyzing changes in health behavior and allowing to analyze how specific verbal rules exercise control over response (Barnes & Keenan, 1993;Carpentier, Smeets, & Barnes-Holmes, 2002). Behavior change should not only act on the interruption of unhealthy behaviors, but also on strengthening or weakening existing relational responses and learning new relational responses in the context of healthy behaviors.…”

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A Functional Contextualist Account of Behavioral Economics: Relational Frame Theory Applied to Decision-Making and Choice Behavior

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Behavioral economics is a discipline that is mainly rooted in cognitivism and that is concerned with the study of decision-making processes and choice behavior. These involve addressing the relations between cognition and overt behavior, which comprise one of the most challenging topics in the domain of behavioral sciences at large and have been approached by different epistemological viewpoints. Within the cognitivist tradition, private events have been often treated as causes of behaviors, adopting a mechanistic view. Conversely, a contextual functional behavioral perspective treats them with the same methodology that is adopted for overt behaviors. Relational frame theory, a post-Skinnerian theory of language and cognition, offers a behavioral perspective on cognition and overt behavior and how they influence human behavior, by keeping a high degree of coherence with basic principles and goals of behavior analysis (i.e., effective action). This conceptual paper represents an attempt to offer a perspective drawn from contextual behavioral science on some constructs described in behavioral economics. Furthermore, it provides a common ground for behavior analysts and researchers in other fields of psychology to further expand our knowledge and respective explanations of decision-making processes. Finally, it draws a line for connecting basic research to applied solutions.

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Establishing Transfer of Compound Control in Children: A Stimulus Control Analysis

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Matching Derived Functionally-Same Stimulus Relations: Equivalence-Equivalence and Classical Analogies

Matching Derived Functionally-Same Stimulus Relations: Equivalence-Equivalence and Classical Analogies

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Health Behavior Change: A Contextually-Driven Approach

A Functional Contextualist Account of Behavioral Economics: Relational Frame Theory Applied to Decision-Making and Choice Behavior

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