Acceptance and Commitment Therapy For Dummies by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119106296
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2016-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

Recognising the benefits of deriving novel relationships

The ability to reverse and combine stimulus relationships is important because it enables humans to connect events and objects in ways that other animals can’t. Consider the example of someone taking a dog for a walk in the park. Before he sets off he may call out to the dog ‘walkies’. Because that word precedes going for a walk to the park, when the dog hears ‘walkies’ it wags its tail and becomes excited. But if the owner had only ever said ‘walkies’ after he returned from the park and not before, and if one day he then said ‘walkies’ before setting off, the dog wouldn’t react. The dog cannot reverse the park — ‘walkies’ relationship — it is one way only.

Now consider an equivalent situation involving a language-able human. A parent gives a child a sweet and only afterwards says ‘sweet’. On another occasion, the parent asks the child if he’d like a sweet and he still knows what this term means and immediately says, ‘Yes, please!’ This situation is possible because a language-able child can reverse the sweet–‘sweet’ relationship.

The ability to reverse and combine learned and derived relationships means human beings can connect all sorts of arbitrary stimuli and events together, and this ability is at the heart of their symbolic communication.

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