RBT Study Guide Magic

A behavior technician is working with a client who is normally energetic and eager to work. Today, the client appears ill and prefers to lie on the floor rather than sit in a chair. What should the behavior technician do?

Report the client's behavior and condition to the supervisor or family immediately

Differential Reinforcement of Other Behaviors

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

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

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

So learners can increase overall skill repertoires

Why is it important to define a behavior in observable and measurable terms?

So the behavior's occurrence can be agreed upon by different observers

teaching targets on the written skill acquisition plan...

Tell the behavior technician what to present.

The y, or vertical, axis on a graph shows

The number of behaviors.

Data are plotted on line graphs according to...

The number of instances of the behavior across time

Which of the following is the best reason for conducting a reinforcer assessment before implementing a naturalistic intervention?

To know what to have available as reinforcers and possibly intervention materials.

Reinforcing behaviors that are incompatible with hitting would fall under which component of a behavior intervention plan

Consequence Strategies

Which of the following is the best way to protect health information of a client when discussing the client's progress with colleagues?

Using only first names when discussing a client.

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 interobserver agreement?

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

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

Operationally defining the behavior.

Which of the following data recording procedures is best used for behaviors that have a clear ending and a clear beginning but do not occur throughout an interval, yet still occur at high rates?

Partial interval.

Which of the following could be a response that immediately follows a discriminative stimulus?

Put object in cup.

Undesirable behavior can be reduced by...

Reinforcing alternative behaviors using extinction or punishment.

Differential reinforcement works by

Reinforcing only the behaviors that should be increased

Behavioral Shaping involves...

Reinforcing successive approximations of a larger behavior

In a multiple stimulus with replacement preference assessment, the choice the learner makes on the initial trial is

Replaced and put with different items on the second trial.

Which of the following is an example of a paired stimulus preference assessment being implemented?

A behavior technician presents 2 items each trial and asks the leaner to make a choice

Extinction works by...

Abruptly stopping the reinforcer.

Type 1 Punishment involves...

Adding a condition to reduce a behavior.