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Teaching Complex Verbal Operants with the PEAK Relational Training System

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The present study evaluated the effectiveness of five packaged protocols from the Promoting 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.

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  1. Applied Behavior Analysis, Aurora University, Aurora, IL, 60506, USA

    Autumn N. McKeel

  2. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, USA

    Kyle E. Rowsey, Jordan Belisle & Mark R. Dixon

  3. Illinois Center for Autism, Fairview Heights, IL, USA

    Suzan Szekely

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McKeel, A.N., Rowsey, K.E., Belisle, J. et al. Teaching Complex Verbal Operants with the PEAK Relational Training System. Behav Analysis Practice 8, 241–244 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-015-0067-y

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