Concept

Relational frame theory

Overview

psychological theory of human language, developed by Steven C. Hayes, arguing that the building block of human language and higher cognition is relating (creating bidirectional links between things)

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• Cognition
• Operant conditioning
• Language
• Noam Chomsky
• David Sloan Wilson
• Evolutionary biology
• Gender role
• Generative grammar
• Behaviorism
• Cognitive psychology
• Verbal Behavior
• Psychopathology
• Convention (norm)
• Evolutionary psychology

Opposing perspectives

• Behaviorism

Place in the tradition

Part of Behaviorism.

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