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Testing and developing procedures for assessing and training hierarchical classification skills in young children using relational frame theory

Mulhern, Teresa
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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/7159
 https://doi.org/10.13025/17026
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2018-02-22
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Relational Frame Theory, Applied Behaviour Analysis, Psychology, Classification, Hierarchy, Psychology, Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies
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The current thesis aimed to conceptualise, assess and train features of hierarchical classification from a behaviour analytic, or more specifically a Relational Frame Theory (RFT), perspective. Classification refers to grouping stimuli according to shared physical or functional characteristics (Barnes-Holmes, Dymond, & O’Hora, 2001). Hierarchical classification is a more complex form of classification, whereby classes themselves are classified as members of other classes. For example, a “budgie” is a member of the class of “bird”, and the class of “bird” is a member of the class of “animal”. Classification can be conceptualised as involving particular types of framing. RFT sees containment (A is in B; B contains A) and hierarchical (A is a type of B; B is a class containing A) relational responding as core repertoires for categorisation. As such, RFT regards both containment and hierarchical relational responding as core repertoires for categorisation.
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National University of Ireland, Galway Doctoral Research Scholarship
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