Quiz Questions

Don Baer is credited with pioneering the use of ________________________________ to demonstrate the effectiveness of ABA interventions.

single subject design

Interview skills and customer service skills are examples of _________ skills.

soft

The earliest form of intraverbal training is...

song fill-ins

A person with a complex vocabulary and multiple motor impairments would probably prefer

stand alone device

Joey likes to hear his mother scream, so he walks around the house making a squeaky noise she does not like. She tries to ignore it, but after about 8- 10 iterations, she screams. What reinforcement schedule is this?

variable ratio?

The RBT Task list has ___________ areas of competencies.

6

tact

A label (tact a thing, action, emotion)

Intraverbal

A social exchange (greeting, response to question, conversation)

prompt

A supplemental antecedent stimulus that is used when a stimulus does not reliably control a target response.

In childhood, we teach learners to follow instructions of others during emergencies. In adolescence and adulthood, it is important to teach them to be in charge of handling the emergency.

A. Yes, if the person is ever going to be left alone.

Stimulus control

Behavioral response occurs in the presence of a particular stimulus, but not in its absence.

ABC recording is a method of data collection developed by

Bijou?

What are the 3 theories of language?

Biological, cognitive and behavioral

Three considerations for using restraint or seclusion, according to the ABAI's position statement, are:

C. welfare of the individual, right to choose, and least restrictiveness

Prompt Dependence

Continued reliance on a prompt to initiate the performance of a mastered behavior.

Practically speaking, we should spend more time helping people learn how to use _____________ currency than ___________ currency.

Digital, paper

Last step of the scientific method

Draw conclusions

A tact is a procedure - short for tactic.

False

According to the BACB, punishment is only to be used after reinforcement has failed.

False

Behavior analysis cannot account for complex verbal behaviors, such as listening to a boring speaker just to be polite.

False

Behavior analytic conferences hosted by organizations such as ABAI and APBA are primarily focused on professional development of behavior analysts and are not a good source of information for RBTs.

False

Delay tolerance is another word for procrastination.

False

During mand training, if the child requests an item that is visible to him, the therapist can reinforce by either giving him the item or praising him for asking nicely.

False

It is uncommon for the students that RBTs work with to use idiosyncratic signs.

False

Motor imitation skills are important precursor skills for verbal behavior.

False

Only persons who have the ability to touch a screen or keyboard accurately can use a speech-generating device

False

People with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Level 1, may have been diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder, NOS in the past.

False

Problem behavior associated with Dementia does not respond to ABA approaches.

False

Sleep training is not a target for behavior analysis.

False

Tacts are easier to teach than mands.

False

The best time to teach the mand for apple is when the child has just eaten an apple.

False

The goal of motor imitation training is to have the child exhibit the behavior without a model.

False

The most important thing for school readiness is pre-academic skill development.

False

The only symptom of ADHD that is typically outgrown is inattentiveness.

False

The processes used in problem behavior intervention vary across the lifespan.

False

To reinforce a correct tact, allow the child to interact with the item for a few minutes.

False

When conducting listener skills training, it is best to have the child master one skill before introducing a second skill.

False

When punishment leads to a behavior improvement in one context, it may also improve in other contexts without punishment. This is called behavioral contrast.

False

What is a process for determining the environmental events that elicit problem behavior?

Functional behavior assessment

Which of the following can cause a developmental disability?

Genetics and injuries

The importance of teaching ______________________ safety has increased drastically over the past decade.

Internet

RBT: "Where should we go?" Child: "The aquarium!." In this scenario, the child's response is a(n) ____________________.

Intraverbal

Conversing and answering questions are examples of...

Intraverbals

Which type of language training requires the most sign language fluency from the RBT?

Intraverbals

The earliest lessons on emotion management are focused on...

Labeling emotions

Repeated punishment in the absence of reinforcement for alternative behaviors leads to a cessation of all actions.

Learned helplessness

The only verbal operant that directly serves the speaker.

Mand

Child: "Ball" RBT: (gives the child a ball) In this scenario, "ball" is a(n)...

Mand (Says what they want and RBT gives them item)

In basketball, repeated personal fouls result in a player being benched. This is an example of _______________________ if it leads to that player committing fewer personal fouls.

Negative punishment?

When we offer additional reinforcers the person can lose via problem behavior, we are using?

Overcorrection

Abby and Lucy had a huge argument on the playground last year. Lucy has refused to play with Abby since then. Her new best friend, Allie, recently started inviting Abby into their games. Lucy is now tolerating Abby as long as Allie is there, too. This is an early step in the process of

Pairing

Prompting Hierarchy

Physical assist-model-specific instruction-Vague instruction-cue

Mr. Sego caught Ben running in the hallway, and required him to return to the end of the hallway and walk down it three times correctly. This is called...

Positive practice overcorrection

"ADHD has three types:

Predominantly inattentive, predominantly hyperactive/impulsive, and combined type

ADHD has three types:

Predominantly inattentive, predominantly hyperactive/impulsive, and combined type

Problem behavior is best addressed if a ____________________ behavior is taught.

Replacement

Mand

Requests (things, attention, information)

Decreasing reliance on others to access resources and assert ones' rights.

Self advocacy

The man considered to be the father of behavior analysis

Skinner

Reinforcement for correct responding in a motor imitation trial is usually?

Social

JJ's mother objects to a goal his IEP team recommended (to identify his ABCs) because he has worked on it for 10 consecutive years and has not mastered it. JJ's mother is essentially saying the goal has no ______________________ .

Social validity

Prompt Contigency

Stimulus-Prompt-Behavior-Reinforcement

Stimulus Control Transfer

Systematic reduction of prompts and reinforcement to achieve the final goal of stimulus control.

RBT: shows picture of a ball and asks "what is this?" Child: "Ball" In this scenario, the word "ball" is a(n)...

Tact (asking questions)

Response Effort

The amount of ease or difficulty with which a person can complete a task. This influences the frequency with which the task will be performed.

A speaker's mand is an SD for the listener to act.

True

ABA is only interested in solving socially meaningful behavior problems of humans.

True

All programs should be focused on increasing independence through prompt fading.

True

An advanced skill within the category of task-related behavior includes accepting feedback and correcting errors.

True

If reprimands are the only form of attention given, they will become reinforcing.

True

Life skills instruction is enhanced by teaching the child to self-monitor his or her own efforts.

True

Listeners serve as both reinforcers of and discriminative stimuli for speaker behavior.

True

New requirements for hygiene arise in puberty.

True

Of all the communication modes, we are least knowledgeable about the effects of picture communication on the development of spoken language.

True

Picture communication training might lay a good foundation for later training on a speech generating device.

True

Point-to-point correspondence in motor imitation means the child exactly duplicates the movements of the adult model.

True

Punishment is an acceptable therapeutic intervention if you cannot block delivery of the reinforcer.

True

Social skills training is enhanced by teaching children and adolescents to use slang.

True

Some devices will allow a person to say any word they can think of, even if it was not pre-programmed.

True

System-wide approaches such as positive behavior support and trauma-informed care have decreased the social acceptability of punishment procedures.

True

The main difference between teaching communication goals with students who speak and those who cannot is that the RBT must also learn the mode of communication.

True

The majority of high school students with disabilities receive accommodations and modifications, but most of them do not receive any accommodations in college.

True

Upon entering his workplace each morning, Mr. Miller will greet at least three coworkers with a wave, smile, or head nod for 3 consecutive days by the 14th treatment session.

True

A behavior is most observable if you can answer the questions

When, what, how

In teaching echoics, we shape by reinforcing ____________________________ before requiring correct words.

Word approximations

Otis wants to know how long it takes Fred and Laura to initiate work after being told to begin. Is this a good example of a behavioral measurement?

Yes

Which of the following is a risk associated with exclusionary time-out?

aggression and incidental reinforcement

The SD for the mand is...

an MO

Organizational skills are an example of...

executive functioning skills

Overlearning is a concept related to...

fluency

When stimuli fail to elicit the target behavior due to repeated presentation, _____________________ has occurred.

habitiuation

RBT: "Bobby" Bobby: (looks at RBT). In this scenario, Bobby's behavior is a(n) ___________________ skill.

listener skill

In order to use a larger array of vocabulary words on an SGD, a user need to have ___________________ skills.

match to sample

Echolic

mimicry (jargon, repeating words)

An intraverbal response is a verbal response to a verbal SD with?

no point-to-point correspondence

FCT often teaches the child to use ________________________ communication in the early stages, regardless of what communication is being used outside the sessions.

picture

Which form of sign language is used frequently by native oral speakers who later lose their hearing and study ASL?

pigdeon sign

Reinforcement can be based on?

presentation or removal

Speakers serve as SDs for listeners to...

say, think