Verbal relations, time and suicide

Abstract

Argue that there is a fundamental difference at the level of psychological process between verbal and non-verbal stimulus functions: verbal functions involve arbitrarily applicable relational responding, or relational frames a relational frame is an overarching class of instrumental behavior (from the chapter)discuss knowing in the gnoscere sense "experiential knowing" and knowing in the scire sense "verbal knowing" how is behavior organized with regard to time what does it mean to know about time verbally what kind of derived relations are involved in timesuicide involves psychological activities that are oriented toward personal death as a consequence of that activity this is part of what is meant by suicide being "purposeful" discusses the construction of the consequences of death verbally suicide is a verbal concept that has many stimulus functions based on the many relations it sustains with other events (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)