Registered Behavior Technician (RTB) certification study guide

Cici loves to play with blocks but has little interest in being sung to. Her teacher decides to sing to her whenever Cici is playing with blocks so that the songs may also acquire reinforcing properties. This refers to what procedure?

Stimulus-stimulus pairing

If a practitioner finds that, due to unforeseen factors, a potentially harmful multiple relationship has arisen, what is recommended?

Attempt to resolve with the best interests of the affected person and maximal compliance with the Guidelines.

The "behavioral" dimension of ABA refers to:

Being able to observe and measure behavior.

When practitioners believe there may have been an ethical violation by another practitioner, or non behavioral colleague, they attempt to resolve the issue, first by:

Bringing it to the attention of that individual

Which of the following could ensure that an intervention involving the use of punishment is effective? A. Getting prior approval from a human subjects panel B. Obtaining informed consent from parents or guardians C. Collecting and reviewing intervention data D. Checking in to make sure things are going well

C. Collecting and reviewing intervention data

Which of the following is a more current expansion of discrete trial instruction: A. Use of punishment following an incorrect response B. The use of animals in discrete trial intervention C. Errorless learning techniques D. The use of reinforcement as a consequence in a discrete trial

C. Errorless learning techniques

Which activity is appropriate for an RBT to engage in when data are being collected for the behavior intervention process?

Collecting frequency data during an observation of the learner

Which of the following dimensions of ABA refers to the social importance of problems? A. Analytic B. Conceptual C. Technological D. Applied

D. Applied

Intervention plans should be:

Data-based, ethical, and closely monitored.

To achieve momentum during a discrete trial session, you must:

Deliver discriminative stimuli (SD) quickly

Susan's tantrums seemed to last longer with every passing day. Which data collection procedure would be the best to use to determine how long her tantrums last?

Duration

Define Echoic:

Echoic is echoing or in other words vocal imitation. -Something spoken to the student -A matching spoken response.

Prompting before a learner can select an incorrect response is called:

Errorless learning

Which of the following data collection methods might be useful for determining how many times a learner says, "Oh no!"

Frequency

Crisis plans should have interventions based on:

Function of the behavior

Define intraverbal:

Intraverbal is conversational speech. -Something spoken to the student -A non-matching spoken response.

Discrete trials should be delivered rather quickly in order to:

Keep the momentum going.

Which data recording method would be best used to measure the time between when a cue was delivered and a learner responded to the cue?

Latency

Define Listener Behavior:

Listener behavior includes receptive language. -Something spoken to the student. -a nonverbal action by the student.

Define Mand:

Mand is essentially a request. -A motivation for something, and can be spoken, signed, or delivered with PECS.

What are the 5 Verbal Operants?

Mand, Tact, Echoic, Intraverbal, Listener Behavior.

The components of the 4-term contingency include:

Motivating operation, discriminative stimulus, the behavior, the consequence

Define Tact:

Tact is essentially a label. -Sensing something, and can be spoken or signed.

Teaching targets on the written skill acquisition plan:

Tell the behavior technician what to present

Antecedent Interventions are strategies that focus on structuring and modifying the environment and conditions so that:

The crisis behavior is less likely to occur while the environment is modified.

Replacement behaviors are taught so:

The individual has a more desirable option for the behavior of concern.

The process of defining target behaviors using a precise definition is called:

Operationally defining the behavior

What functions as a natural consequence of most social behaviors?

Peer attention

The role of the RBT is to:

Provide direct support and education with individuals receiving ABA services

Differential reinforcement works by:

Reinforcing only the behaviors that should be increased while removing reinforcement from behaviors that should be decreased.

Behavioral shaping involves:

Reinforcing successive approximations of a larger behavior

In discrete trial instruction, least to most prompting sequences are most commonly used when:

The learner can respond correctly to the discriminative stimulus around 85% of the time

Stimulus discrimination training helps:

The learner to discern what is correct in the presence of an incorrect stimulus

During error correction, after you represent the SD with a prompt, you should...

Represent the same instruction (SD) to test if the prompt was effective enough to teach them to get it right on their own.

Differential Reinforcement of other behavior (DRO) involves:

Setting an interval for the problem behavior not to be displayed and reinforcing the child if it is not displayed

Marcia is teaching Denise how to clean a kitchen. She taught her how to rinse dishes and put them in the dishwasher, how to wipe counters, and how to sweep. The process Marcia used to teach how to clean a kitchen is called:

Shaping

In ABA, which is the best reason why behaviors are targeted for increase?

So learners can increase overall skill repertories

Which is the best reason for thinning reinforcement?

To decrease dependence on the reinforcer in order to demonstrate the behavior

Another term for echoics?

Vocal imitation

Which of the following is the best way to determine how to follow the child's lead during a naturalistic teaching session?

Watch the child and look for an opportunity to intervene

What is the starting question and the most important question in the quality of life approach:

What is important to this individual?

What is interobserver agreement (IOA)?

When 2 data collectors agree on data collected at the same time during the display of the behavior

Task analysis

When larger skills are broken down into teachable steps.

Jamaal is collecting data on Freddie's on-task behavior. He looks to see if Freddie is on-task for an entire 10-second interval. If he is, he marks yes. If Freddie looks around during the 10 seconds, he marks no. What type of data recording is Jamaal using?

Whole Interval

Behavioral function tries to explain:

Why the behavior is happening

In discrete trial instruction, a short instruction delivered to a learner is called:

A discriminative stimulus (SD)

Which of the following makes reinforcement more effective? A. Deprivation state, immediacy, adequate size, and contingency B. Prompting, immediacy, adequate size, and contingency C. Deprivation state, latency, adequate size, and contingency D. Deprivation state, immediacy, adequate size, and opportunity

A. Deprivation state, immediacy, adequate size, and contingency

Which of the following is an example of a motivating operation? A. Jan is hungry, so she works harder to get crackers as a reward. B. Jan finds that working is aversive to her so she doesn't work. C. Jan likes crackers for lunch so she has them a lot. D. Jan likes working outside more that she likes working inside.

A. Jan is hungry, so she works harder to get crackers as a reward.

Extinction works by:

Abruptly stopping reinforcement for problem behavior

Asking a learner to select items using a preposition is an:

Advanced skill

An example of overzealous intrusive intervention?

An RBT running over to a client who is slapping himself and screaming for help while they are trying to hold the person's hands