Failures in the functional equivalence: Conceptual issue rather than methodologic one
Abstract
This work aims at showing some conceptual failures in the study of functional equivalence (Tonneau, 2004), also called transfer of function in the approach of Relational Frame Theory (RFT) (Hayes, Barnes-Holmes, & Roche, 2001). This analysis is based on the work "Sitting On the Word Chair: Behavioral Support, Contextual Cues and the Literal Use of Symbols", by Francois Tonneau, Nadjelly Kim Abreu and Felipe Cabrera (2004). Althoug such work does not encompass, nor exhaust the study of functional equivalence, it is assumed that it can help to illustrate how empirical findings regarding this issue come from a conceptual failure rather than from a methodological one.
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