RBT Study Questions
Which of the following is an example of using a token economy?
A child receives point for correct responses to exchange for an activity later on
What is a stimulus class?
A set of stimuli that share a common attribute
Which of the following is an example of how a stimulus control could be augmented?
A timer to signal how long to brush teeth
Which of the following is an example of punishment
After a student got scolded in the hallway for making noises in class, he quit making noises in class
Which of the following could be considered a "multiple relationship" according to the RBT ethics code?
An RBT and parent of a client who have a romantic relationship
Who may conduct the competency assessment?
An experienced assessor with BCBA supervision
What part of the 3-term contingency is the most responsible for stimulus control?
Antecedent
Which of the following dimensions of ABA refers to the social importance of problems?
Applied
When a RBT does not know how to perform an intervention or strategy, which of the following is the best course of action?
Ask for training and supervision on the skill
Which of the following is a learner characteristic that could impact the development of a stimulus control?
Attending skills
Which prompt fading strategy involves using the most intrusive prompt initially then fading to a less intrusive prompt?
Decreasing assistance
A time delay method for fading prompts would be
Delay the delivery of prompts and wait for the person to respond
Which of the following makes reinforcements more effective?
Deprivation state, immediacy, adequate size, and contingency
Recently, Mario's tantrums seem to last longer. Which data recording procedure might be the best one to use to determine this?
Duration
Which of the following functions of behavior involves avoiding a task or interaction?
Escape
Two main reasons why individuals engage in a particular behavior are?
Escape and gain
True or False: an RBT can be the employer of their supervisior
False
Which of the following is an example of a primary reinforcer?
Food
Which of the following is an example of secondary reinforcement?
Getting a good grade on a test
Which of the following is an example of positive reinforcement?
Giving someone a compliment for doing good work
Joint attention skills should be targeted for increase for those individuals who:
Have difficulty responding to cues made by another to attend to a stimulus
Which of the following is operationally defined?
Hitting so hard a picture fell off the wall
Which of the following is an explanation of the "dead man's test"?
If a dead man cannot do it, then it is a behavior
Which of the following is an example of a motivating operation?
Jan is hungry, so she works harder to get crackers as a reward
Which of the following is an example of overcorrection?
Marty had to clean the bathroom wall because she wrote on it
In order to randomly rotate trials, what must a learner have done first?
Mastered some targets they can be mixed in the rotation
Naturalistic techniques are used to help learners generalize skills and for learners who
Might initially resist more structured settings
Stimulus control transfer is important for
Moving artificial prompts to naturally occurring ones
Which of the following could be considered a violation of the portion of the RBT Ethics code that addressed accurate representation of credentials and work?
Not renewing credentials and still claiming to have a current RBT status
which of the following data recording procedures is best used for behaviors that have a clear ending and beginning, do not occur throughout an interval, but still occur at high rates?
Partial interval
Which of the following is an illustration of the most-to-least prompting
Partial physical, modeling, visual, gestural
Motivating operations can exert stimulus control over a behavior by:
Playing a role in the effectiveness of the reinforcer at the that point in time
How can consistently and routine help to increase the display of a desired behavior?
Predictability that goes along with consistency and routine helps learners focus on whats important
The doctrine of "least restrictive alternative" when it comes to punishment states that:
Punishment is a last resort after other interventions have been attempted and failed
Which terms replaced "responsible certificant" in the latest RBT updates?
RBT requirements coordinator and RBT supervisor
Skinner used the term "operant conditioning" to describe:
Rats pressing a lever to receive food until they were full
Which of the following is true about concept of motivating operants (MO).
Reinforcers work better when they are in effect
Differential reinforcement works by:
Reinforcing only the behaviors that should be increased while removing reinforcement from behaviors that should be decreased
Which of the following is the best definition of shaping?
Reinforcing successive approximations of a behavior
Behavioral shaping involves:
Reinforcing successive approximations of a larger behavior
Walter can ride a bicycle and shoot a basketball through a hoop, it he cannot draw a picture of a dog. Which of the skills would you say are in Walters "behavioral repertoire"?
Riding a bicycle and shooting a basketball
Which of the following is a behavior?
Running a race, running can be observed and measured
Which of the following is a discriminative stimulus (SD)
Saying "matching blue" and receiving a blue card
Which of the following is an example of a naturally occurring discriminative stimulus at work
Seeing a stop sign and stopping
Differential reinforcement of other behavior DRO invovles:
Setting an interval for the problem behavior not to be displayed and reinforcing 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
Shaping
Why would the prompt level necessary to perform the skill be an important part of data collection?
Skills performed with prompts are not mastered until they are performed without prompts
In ABA, which is the best reason why behaviors are targeted to increase?
So learners can increase overall skill repertoires
Why is it important to record data as close to the time the behavior actually occurred as possible?
So the data will be more likely to reflect an accurate picture of the behavior
Spontaneous recovery refers to:
Sudden reoccurrence of behavior that was extinguished
Which of the following is an example of negative reinforcement?
Taking away a chore for making good grades?
Extinction of the behavior maintained by positive reinforcement works by:
Taking away the reinforcer for problem behaviors
______ is when target behaviors are broken down into steps
Task analysis
Forward chaining invovles
Teaching the beginning steps and reinforcing each subsequent step
Which of the following behaviors could be reinforced on a fixed interval schedule of reinforcement?
The amount of time spent on a task
Which of the statements is true about the new RBT updates?
The changes are based on recommendations from a panel of experts
Phase change lines indicate
The division between one condition and another
Which of the following is an advantage of backward chaining:
The learner experiences the culmination of the steps of the chain more quickly
Prior to the creation of the RBT ethics code, which set of ethical standards did RBTs follow?
The professional and ethical compliance code of the BACB
What is the difference between differential reinforcement of alternative behavior DRA and differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior DRI?
The replacement behavior selected in DRA does not have to be incompatible with the problem behavior
If a behavior is maintained:
Then the individual continues to perform it after intervention has stopped
When behaviors are being maintained, reinforcement schedules move from
Thick to thin
Susan records data after every discrete trial she delivers. What type of data recording is this?
Trial by trial
True or False: videoconferencing and webcams can be used in RBT supervision
True
Which of the following should be used for teaching the concept of blue
Various shade of blue on identical objects
Which of the following replacement behaviors might functionally equivalent to the undesirable behavior of screaming a demand?
Verbalizing what is wanted
Antecedents are:
What happens before a behavior occurs
Which of the following is true about reinforcement?
What one individual finds reinforcing may not be true for others
For which of the following examples is it critical to seek clinical supervision?
When a client displays unexpected behavior
Under which of the following circumstances should extinction not be used?
When it could cause harm to the individual or others in the environment
Cumulative graphs are used
When progress toward a predetermined number of behaviors should be demonstrated
A trend that ascends from left to right means
a behavior is increasing
Stimulus equivalence occurs when
a response is correctly displayed in the presence of a stimulus that has not been trained or reinforced
Extinction works by:
abruptly stopping reinforcement for problem behavior
Type 1 punishment invovles:
adding a condition to reduce a behavior
Which of the following is an example of negative punishment
paying a speeding ticket
Which of the following should you do if you are using errorless learning to deliver a trial
provide the most intrusive prompt necessary for correct responding
Which of the following is a pivotal skill that helps individuals "learn to learn"?
responding to multiple cue in the environment
Which of the following could be a successive approximations for shaping the behavior of "having a conversation"
saying "hello" to another person
Data collected during naturalistic teaching should always include information about
target behaviors, prompt levels needed, and activities
if a learner is requiring more and more prompting to perform a skill, the first concern is
the learner is becoming prompt dependent
generalization across settings occurs when
the learner performs the behavior in different environments
Stimulus discrimination training helps:
the learner to discern what is correct in the presence of an incorrect stimulus
Data are plotted on line graphs according to
the number of instances of the behavior across time
a disadvantage of bar graph is
the variability of data can be lost
The transitivity aspect of stimulus equivalence is the result of:
training 2 other stimulus relations
Which of the following data collection methods involves recording the results of each trial presented
trial by trial data
Which would be the next step in a shaping program to increase time on task from 3 minutes
4 minutes
What percentage of time of the provision of ABA services must be devoted to supervision?
5%
The quote "all behavior has a communicative intent" can be best explained by the statement:
Behavior always serves a purpose for the person engaging in the behavior
John Watson used which term to describe the study of behavior?
Behaviorism
Which of the following is an antecedent variable that could play a role in the display of a behavior?
Being in a quiet environment
How does functional communication training (FCT) address problem behaviors?
By addressing communication skills needed to replace the problem behavior
Which of the following statements is true regarding learning complex behaviors
Complex behaviors cannot be learned all at once
Punishment has occurred when the behavior it followed:
decreases
In order for reinforcers to be effective a(n) _____ state must exist for that reinforcer
deprivation
If a learner starts displaying a skill learned in DTI within natural environment, we might say that the leaner
has generalized the skill from DTI to the natural environment
Which of the following is a drawback of probe data?
it is less accurate
prompting procedures help a behavior technician to
know how to prompt and how to fade prompts
visual inspection is
making a judgment abut the effects of an intervention by examining graphed data
Which of the following verbal operants is used when a learner requests a cookie?
mand
