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CHH 20
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| acceptance and commitment therapy | An evidence-based behavior therapy focusing on general well-being, defined as making reliable contact with high-priority positive reinforcers. |
| arbitrarily applicable relational responding | Forming new stimulus classes with little or no reinforced practice. |
| arbitrary relations | Stimuli to which people respond in interlocked ways, not because of physical similarity, but because social-verbal reinforcement contingencies teach people to respond to them in this way. |
| behavioral inflexibility | An insensitivity to external stimuli occurring when private events interfere with well-being behaviors on which high-priority positive reinforcers are contingent. |
| causal relations | If-then relationships that are a central feature of understanding and doing science. With respect to stimulus relations, causal relations can define the structure of a stimulus class or behavior function through which stimuli in a class are transformed. |
| combinatorial entailment | A relation involving two stimuli that both participate in mutual entailment with some common third stimulus |
| contextual stimulus | Signals the type of relational responding that will be reinforced. |
| deictic relations | A relation between the self, as one stimulus, and other stimuli from the external world. |
| derived relations | Responding indicating a relation (e.g., same as, opposite, different from, better than) between two or more stimuli that emerges as an indirect function of related instruction or experience. |
| distinction relations | Responding jointly to two stimuli on the basis of their differences. |
| hierarchical relations | A nested stimulus relation in which a category, subsuming multiple stimuli, is itself a member of a higher-order category subsuming multiple stimuli. |
| multiple-exemplar training | Instruction that provides the learner with practice with a variety of stimulus conditions, response variations, and response topographies to ensure the acquisition of desired stimulus control response forms. |
| mutual entailment | A bidirectional stimulus relation in which one direction (e.g., if A, then B) is directly learned and the other (if B, then A) is derived. |
| nonequivalence relations | Derived stimulus relations in which stimuli are related on some basis other than “sameness.” |
| perspective shifting | Responding as if from the vantage point of another person, place, or time than the personal here and now. |
| relational frame theory | A theory of derived stimulus relations proposing that stimulus relations are inherently verbal and that accumulated experience with relational exemplars creates generalized repertoires of relating. |
| relational frame | Any specific type of arbitrarily applicable relational responding. |
| rule-governed behavior | Behavior controlled by a rule (i.e., a verbal statement of an antecedent-behavior-consequence contingency); enables human behavior to come under the indirect control of temporally remote or improbable, but potentially significant consequences |
| spatial relations | Responding jointly to two stimuli on the basis of their juxtaposition in space. |
| transformation of function | Occurs when the behavioral function of one stimulus in a stimulus class changes as a predictable function of the behavior function of other stimuli in the class. |
| temporal relations | Responding jointly to two stimuli on the basis of their juxtaposition in time. |