LIVE from Nashville: Categorization in a Polarized World: Stimulus Relations and Levels of Analysis becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside case conceptualization, intervention design, staff training, and literature-informed problem solving. In Categorization in a Polarized World: Stimulus Relations and Levels, for this course, the practical stakes show up in stronger conceptual consistency and better translational decision making, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Stimulus class formation, or categorization, underlies much of the adaptive behavior of humans and other animals. Yet, categorization is involved in many social problems: Racism and sexism are examples, as is politically-based polarization that undermines efforts to battle major threats to humanity, such as climate change and infectious disease. Stimulus classes can be formed based on perceptual similarity or abstraction of common physical features, but they can also be formed based on learned and derived relations between stimuli that share no particular physical features in common. Prediction and control of the latter type of stimulus class formation may require multiple levels of conceptual and experimental analysis. I will provide an example of laboratory research that has aimed to understand derived stimulus relations at a molecular, behavioral level, and speculate on how and whether such analyses might be of value to understanding and generating solutions to social problems.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
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