This book reviews how people and animals learn and how their behaviors are later changed
as a result of this learning. Nearly all of our behaviors are influenced by prior learning …

The extent to which nonhuman animals can learn actual human language is a controversial
question, but many nonhuman species have acquired elements of a two-way …

This chapter introduces the origins of, as well as arguments and evidence for, relational
frame theory (RFT). It presents the study of arbitrarily applicable relational responding …

In its 20-year history, the Creativity Research Journal has invited and published just one set
of Point-Counterpoint articles. Those two articles debated the evidence for and against the …

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is more than just a set of techniques for
structuring psychotherapeutic treatment; it also offers a new, insightful, transdiagnostic …

Generally speaking, the study of concepts in cognitive psychology is anthropocentric with
respect to both content and theory. A broader comparative perspective on the various forms …

Many authors have argued that word-learning constraints help guide a word-learner's
hypotheses as to the meaning of a newly heard word. One such class of constraints derives …

Elucidating the nature, use, and origin of knowledge in animals is one of the major
endeavors of comparative psychology. Two aspects of knowledge used in inferential …

The ability to reason by exclusion (which is defined as the selection of the correct alternative
by logically excluding other potential alternatives; Call in Anim Cogn 9: 393–403 2006) is …

The aim of this study was to evaluate whether emergent conditional relations could be
established with a go/no‐go procedure using compound abstract stimuli. The procedure was …