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Although clinical, social, and cognitive psychologists all use the concept of ‘cognition’, they often use it in different ways to refer to different phenomena We offer a heuristic framework for distinguishing among three general uses of the word cognition, and apply this framework to an evaluation of the experiential avoidance concept presented by Hayes and Gifford (this issue) While acknowledging the promise of such work, we raise concerns about its possible limitations We recommend that clinical applications of the cognition concept be grounded in the theories and methods of contemporary cognitive and neural sciences In support of our recommendation, we present three examples from experiments from our own research

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Contributions of Cognitive Theory to New Behavioral Treatments

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