Language Generativity, Response Generalization, and Derived Relational Responding (2024)

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What is derived relational responding in ABA? ›

For example, understanding “more than” or “less than” involves a relational frame. Derived Relational Responding: RFT emphasizes the ability to derive new relations or responses based on previously learned relations. This allows for the formation of complex cognitive abilities.

Language generativity can be described as the ability to produce sentences never before said, and to understand sentences never before heard. One process often cited as underlying language generativity is response generalization.

In relational responding, a subject is not simply responding to a single stimulus as determined by context but is in fact responding to one stimulus in terms of another stimulus (e.g., Hayes, Fox, et al., 2001).

Relational frame theory (RFT) is a behavioral theory of human language. It is rooted in functional contextualism and focused on predicting and influencing verbal behavior with precision, scope and depth.

When an individual can produce multiple responses/behaviors in the presence of a single antecedent stimulus, they have demonstrated response generalization. For example, when someone feels the antecedent stimulus of hunger” Synonyms: they might be able to ask their parent for a snack (response 1)

Which of these defines the generativity of language? We can create and understand an infinite number of meaningful sentences.

Relational models theory predicts that social relationships are formed from four underlying psychological models: communal sharing, authority ranking, equality matching, and market pricing.

In general, the relational approach places emphasis on relationships, respect, responsibility and restoration, which have been shown to be more effective in addressing issues of discipline and conflict than traditional behavioural approaches, where systems rely on the use of rewards and sanctions to encourage ...

A behavior analytic approach to language which aims to connect and understand the relationship between language and derived stimulus relations.

For example, if you always said the word “dinner” to a child before, during, or after their evening meal, he would connect the word “dinner” with eating his meal. If you then told the child that “supper” was another word for “dinner,” he would be able to easily connect the new word to the event of eating dinner.

What is the RFT model of language development? ›

WHAT IS RFT? RFT is a behavior-analytic account of human language and cognition. It is fundamentally similar to Skinner's account, and is distinct from most cognitive and linguistic approaches to language, in that “it approaches verbal events as activities not products” (Hayes, Fox, et al., 2001, p. 22).

Definition: A relation between two or more stimuli that is not directly trained and not based on physical properties of the stimuli. If A, B, and C all correspond to the same thing, and only A-B and B-C are directly trained, the relation drawn between A and C is derived.

A derived relation is an outcome that results from directly teaching the interconnectedness of stimuli. The most important type of derived relation involves relating two or more stimuli that have never been directly paired but share an association with a common stimulus (Critchfield & Fienup, 2008).

DSRs are deduced from other, explicitly taught connections rather than being explicitly taught. On the other hand, verbal conduct is explicitly taught. DSRs are not just restricted to language, which is another distinction between them and verbal conduct.

Equivalence involves correctly responding to stimulus-stimulus relations that have not been trained or reinforced but are the result of reinforcing other stimulus-stimulus relations (Cooper, Heron, and Heward, 2007). Derived stimulus relations are basically new connections that learners make.