Verbal Establishing Stimuli: Testing the Motivative Effect of Stimuli in a Derived Relation with Consequences

Ju, Winifred C.; Hayes, Steven C.

doi:10.1007/bf03395623

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“…For example, the realization that ''I love my job'' may, at least temporarily, make job-relevant activity even more reinforcing than before. There is now established empirical support for both these forms of augmental rule following (Hayes, Kohlenberg, & Hayes, 1991;Ju & Hayes, 2008;Whelan & Barnes-Holmes, 2004). Leigland (2005) suggests that in the case of augmental rule following, ''reinforcement may be a derived function established through participation in a network of relations among arbitrary stimuli' ' (p. 137).…”

Section: Behavior Analysis and Valuesmentioning

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“…Ju and Hayes (2008) provided the first unequivocal demonstration of verbal establishing stimulation, the key process involved in valuing. Experiment 1, involving 4-and 5-year-old children, showed that stimuli in experimentally trained frames of coordination (equivalence) with reinforcing consequences increased operant responding that produced those consequences.…”

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In search of meaning: Values in modern clinical behavior analysis

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Skinner described behavior analysis as the field of values and purpose. However, he defined these concepts in terms of a history of reinforcement and failed to specify whether and how human and nonhuman values might differ. Human values have been seen as theoretically central within a number of nonbehavioral traditions in psychology, including humanism and positive psychology. However, these approaches have failed to provide explanations of the behaviorenvironment relations involved in valuing that might allow prediction and influence with respect to this phenomenon. Modern clinical behavior analysis in the form of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), however, succeeds in providing a functional definition of human values that meets this latter criterion. ACT is rooted in behavior analysis and relational frame theory (RFT) and defines values in terms of verbally established motivation. ACT empirical research into values has begun to blossom in recent years, and ACT-RFT researchers are currently investigating the concept at the most basic empirical level as well as in the applied clinical arena, heralding new interest in and insight into values within clinical behavioral psychology.

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Section: Behavior Analysis and Valuesmentioning

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“…Ju and Hayes (2008) showed in a laboratory experiment that children presented with stimuli in an equivalence class with an appetitive consequence showed higher rates of instrumental behaviour directed toward that consequence. The motivative effects of such reinforcer-focused statements were examined in the present study.…”

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Whatever gets your heart pumping: the impact of implicitly selected reinforcer-focused statements on exercise intensity

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Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

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“…According to this perspective, rules modify or establish the psychological functions of events via a transformation of functions that typically involve coordination, comparison, temporality and/or causality. They constitute a class of EERRs that can be established by the individual themselves or the wider verbal community and specify a contingency between antecedent, behavioral and consequential events (see Ju & Hayes, 2008;Törneke, 2010;Whelan, Barnes-Holmes, & Dymond, 2006). Importantly, the behavior or consequences specified by the rule need not have been directly contacted by the individual in the past.…”

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Holding on to our functional roots when exploring new intellectual islands: A voyage through implicit cognition research

Hughes

Barnes‐Holmes

Vahey

2012

Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

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a b s t r a c tThroughout much of the past two decades, contextual behavioral science has been applied to a diverse spectrum of psychological phenomena. This intellectual voyage into uncharted waters has brought with it exciting new developments at the methodological and theoretical levels as well as increased contact with other philosophical frameworks such as mechanism. This expansion into new territories requires that the researcher carefully walk a tight-rope between different intellectual traditions-an activity that is subject to several challenges and dangers. In the following paper we provide a detailed map on how to navigate such pitfalls in the study of implicit cognition. We open with a comprehensive overview of the core assumptions and analytic strategies upon which the cognitive (mechanistic) and functional (contextual) traditions have been built. As we shall see, both traditions have sought to understand, predict, and in some cases influence, behavior using radically different conceptual, theoretical and methodological tools. The Relational Elaboration and Coherence (REC) model as well as the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) are offered as examples of how researchers can explore the domain of implicit cognition from a purely functional perspective. Finally, we examine the possibility that although the cognitive and functional frameworks operate at two independent levels of analysis each may be mutually informed by the work of the other, to the benefit of both.

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Verbal Establishing Stimuli: Testing the Motivative Effect of Stimuli in a Derived Relation with Consequences

Cited by 31 publications

References 30 publications

In search of meaning: Values in modern clinical behavior analysis

In search of meaning: Values in modern clinical behavior analysis

Whatever gets your heart pumping: the impact of implicitly selected reinforcer-focused statements on exercise intensity

Holding on to our functional roots when exploring new intellectual islands: A voyage through implicit cognition research

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