40 Hour RBT Training: (37T) Interdisciplinary Work

If your verbal message does not match your nonverbal message, people will pay more attention to your verbal message.

A. False

A process used to examine the antecedents and consequences of behaviors in order to determine the purpose of the behavior.

A. Functional Behavior Assessment

When adding explanatory text to a graph, where should it go?

A. Inside the plot area

Establishing operations are often associated with

A. both a and b

Problem behaviors may lead to negative outcomes such as

A. both a and b

Amy has been biting her fingernails for five years. Her mother applied a terrible tasting medication to her fingernails to discourage her from biting them. So far, the nail biting has not decreased much even with the medication. What's one possible reason?

B. Either A or B could be correct

Fred has noticed that when Ricky ends a rant, he typically pauses for three or four minutes then resumes ranting. He decided to introduce a self-calming activity during the pause to try to eliminate the repetitive rants or at least extend the amount of time between iterations. To assess effectiveness, he would need to collect ____________________ data.

B. Inter-response Time

Length of time that passed before initiating a behavioral response

B. Latency

Fred is working with Ricky to decrease his ranting behavior by having him insert a pause before responding to stimuli that typically precede a rant. Inserting a pause is the replacement behavior. Which of the following methods could you use to measure Ricky's progress with using the replacement behavior?

B. Latency between stimulus and rant

Some problem behaviors disappear when personally valued outcomes are honored through the process of person-centered planning.

B. True

Skill acquisition goals are based on

B. assessment results

When summarizing your ABC Recording data, it is important to focus on

B. both a and b

Which of the following has ABA NOT been shown to be effective for treating?

B. neither a nor b

Which of the following affects reinforcer effectiveness?

Both A and B

Which of the following has been shown to prevent problem behavior among children?

C. Both a and b

What determines whether a particular professional serves on a person-centered planning team?

C. Client choice

The acronym for remembering the dimensions of applied behavior analysis

C. Get a Cab

Teacher takes advantage of naturally occurring situations to teach the targeted skills.

C. Incidental Teaching

Which of the following is an example of a cuing strategy to prevent problem behavior?

C. Teaching the child to follow a visual schedule

NET introduces certain concerns that are less prominent in clinic-based services, such as

C. both a and b

Assessment of the environmental requirements for successful functioning is called

C. ecological assessment

Teaching procedures include prompting methods. error correction, and ______________.

C. reinforcement procedures

If you are having difficulty establishing instructional control in a clinic setting, you may have better luck with natural environment training.

False

People who serve on person-centered planning teams keep within the boundaries of their professional roles.

False

Person-centered planning teams are the same as IEP teams.

False

RBTs cannot be members of person-centered planning teams unless their BCBAs are on the same team.

False

When reporting your ABC recording data, the narrative should explain the graph.

False

A teacher suspects that students who can say all of their multiplication facts in under two minutes perform better on three-digit by two-digit division. What type of graph would be useful for determining if this is true?

NOT C. Bar chart

Trixie's student engages in a high rate of self-injurious behaviors. She collects data on head banging, eye gouging, and self-biting. She does not include hair tugging because compared to the other behaviors, hair tugging is not _______________.

Significant

If a client has an extraordinary day with a high rate of behavior that is not likely to be repeated in the future, you do not have to adjust the y-axis to accommodate it.

True

Person-Centered Planning processes may affect the behaviors that are selected for behavior analytic intervention.

True

Person-Centered Planning (PCP)

is a family of approaches to developing supports and service plans for persons with developmental disabilities that: Focus on individuals as people (not their diagnostic labels) Use ordinary language and images (not professional jargon) Actively search for a person's strengths and gifts Seek to give the person a strong voice in his or her plan