Hayes Steven C, Sanford Brandon T
University of Nevada, Reno.
J Exp Anal Behav. 2014 Jan;101(1):112-29. doi: 10.1002/jeab.64. Epub 2013 Dec 7.
Contextual behavioral perspectives on learning and behavior reside under the umbrella of evolution science. In this paper we briefly review current developments in evolution science that bear on learning and behavior, concluding that behavior is now moving to the center of evolution studies. Learning is one of the main ladders of evolution by establishing functional benchmarks within which genetic adaptations can be advantaged. We apply that approach to the beginning feature of human cognition according to Relational Frame Theory: derived symmetry in coordination framing. When combined with the idea that cooperation came before major advances in human cognition or culture, existing abilities in social referencing, joint attention, perspective-taking skills, and relational learning ensure that the behavioral subcomponents of symmetrical equivalence relations would be reinforced. When coordination framing emerged and came under arbitrary contextual control as an operant class, a template was established for the development of multiple relational frames and the emergence and evolutionary impact of human cognition as we know it. Implications of these ideas for translational research are briefly discussed.
关于学习与行为的情境行为视角处于进化科学的范畴之下。在本文中，我们简要回顾了进化科学中与学习和行为相关的当前发展情况，得出的结论是行为如今正走向进化研究的核心。学习是进化的主要阶梯之一，它通过建立功能基准，使基因适应在其中能够获得优势。我们根据关系框架理论将该方法应用于人类认知的起始特征：协调框架中的派生对称性。当与合作先于人类认知或文化的重大进步这一观点相结合时，社会参照、共同注意、视角采择技能和关系学习方面的现有能力确保对称等价关系的行为子成分会得到强化。当协调框架作为一种操作类出现并受到任意情境控制时，就为多种关系框架的发展以及我们所知的人类认知的出现和进化影响建立了一个模板。这些观点对转化研究的意义也进行了简要讨论。
