title: Teaching Complex Verbal Operants with the PEAK Relational Training System.
abstract: The present study evaluated the effectiveness of five packaged protocols from thePromoting the Emergence of Advanced Knowledge(PEAK) curriculum. The skills targeted in the study included complex verbal operants proposed by Skinner (Verbal behavior. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1957), an area that is lacking in the current literature. The target skills included autoclitics, metonymical tacts, tacting planet names, and guessing. The results suggest that the PEAK methodology was effective in teaching each of the targeted skills to a mastery criterion, as well as maintenance of those skills at a 2-week follow-up phase.
authors.affiliation: grid.252563.50000000085360283Applied Behavior Analysis, Aurora University, Aurora, IL 60506 USA.
authors.forename: Autumn N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: McKeel
authors.affiliation: grid.263856.c0000000108063768Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL USA.
authors.forename: Kyle E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Rowsey
authors.affiliation: grid.263856.c0000000108063768Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL USA.
authors.forename: Jordan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Belisle
authors.affiliation: grid.263856.c0000000108063768Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL USA.
authors.forename: Mark R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Dixon
authors.affiliation: Illinois Center for Autism, Fairview Heights, IL USA.
authors.forename: Suzan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Szekely
keywords: Autism; Curriculum; PEAK; Verbal behavior