RFT Basics
What the acronym RFT stands for.
What is Relational Frame Theory?
The skill that RFT can help improve by teaching learners to relate “I” to “you” and “here” to “there.”
What is perspective-taking?
Peer tutoring is rooted in this.
What is Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)?
In our proposed assignment, these students act as tutors.
Who are Year 3 students?
Critics argue that peer tutoring may unintentionally place too much responsibility on this group.
Who are the tutors?
This type of frame involves identifying something as the same as something else.
What is coordination?
The term that refers to exposing learners to many different examples to teach a flexible concept.
What is multiple exemplar training?
The two main roles in a peer tutoring system.
What are the tutor and the tutee?
The three elements that must be included in the written tutoring plan.
What are the behavioural objective, instructional strategy, and evaluation?
The long-standing educational label tied to IQ that RFT challenges.
What is giftedness or intelligence?
Type of responding that occurs without direct reinforcement, according to RFT.
What is derived relational responding?
Learners that RFT can support who often struggle with flexible or abstract language.
Who are neurodivergent learners?
A behavioural principle that increases engagement and correct responding in peer tutoring.
What is reinforcement?
Type of data that helps determine whether the tutee has acquired the skill.
What is performance data or accuracy data?
Some critics argue that RFT and similar behaviour-analytic models risk reducing complex human experiences to this.
What is mechanistic or overly reductionist behaviour patterns?
One example of a type of relational frame described in RFT.
What is coordination, comparison, opposition, distinction, or hierarchy?
The relational framing process that is key to understanding perspective-taking.
What is deictic framing?
A type of academic or behavioural skill that can be taught using peer tutoring.
What is reading, math, social skills, hygiene, etc.?
One major benefit of peer tutoring in interdisciplinary contexts.
What is increased collaboration, empathy, or shared learning?
Some teachers avoid ABA-based peer tutoring because they feel it suppresses this.
What is creativity or autonomy?
This cognitive ability allows a person to derive new relations, such as A > C, from previously learned ones like A > B and B > C.
What is derived relational responding?
In RFT-based education, teaching this skill helps promote generalization instead of memorization.
What is relational framing?
This component ensures that peer tutoring is both ethical and effective.
What is tutor training or treatment fidelity?
A form of feedback that helps evaluate whether the tutee found the session meaningful.
What is social validity or learner feedback?
RFT suggests this reason why rigid school systems may discourage relational framing.
What is because schools prioritize compliance and rote learning over flexible thinking?