Stimulus Equivalence Relational Frame Theory

We will then consider the experimental procedures that have typically been used to study stimulus equivalence before focusing on a series of studies conducted in ireland and holland that have. However because relational frame theory views symmetry and equivalence as a transfer of stimulus functions it explicitly incorporates all possible stimulus functions into the conceptual and empirical analysis of equivalence responding including those that are not part of sidman s procedural definition of stimulus equivalence e g perceptual and respondent functions. Relational frame theory suggests that stimulus equivalence is a special case of arbitrarily applicable relational responding or relational framing.