Missed Questions on RBT Exam

What is a prerequisite to differential reinforcement?

The learner must have the replacement behavior in their repertoire

Bonnie will always grab a cookie right before dinner. This leads to her refusing to eat her dinner, and engaging in escape-maintained behavior to get away from the table. Your BCBA creates an intervention that involves Bonnie's parents giving Bonnie two cookies after dinner if Bonnie does not eat a cookie before dinner. What type of intervention is this?

Differential reinforcement of other behaviors

Differential reinforcement leads to ______?

Discrimination

Trash collection comes every Saturday in Sarah's neighborhood. When Sarah's husband leaves to play golf, he asks Sarah to put out the trash. Four hours later, Sarah hears the garbage truck coming down her street, so she rushes downstairs to put out the trash can. The sound of the garbage truck in relation to Sarah putting out the trash is a _______?

Discriminative Stimuli

A client's mom reports to you that Abby tried 5 new foods since last session. What type of measurement is this?

Frequency

Understanding the function of a behavior is the first step to properly treating the behavior. Why is it crucial to understand the function of each behavior?

Function tells us why the behavior is occurring

You are trying to gain compliance with your client. You decide to give them 3 easy requests in a row, and then follow it up with a harder task. What are you trying to do?

Gain behavior momentum

A skill acquisition plan contains several essential components. First, a skill must be identified. Then a goal is created to address the skill. Next, a measurement procedure is identified to use to record data. What is the next step in a skill acquisition plan?

Gather baseline data

You and a client practice interview questions every session to prepare for his job interview. During the job interview he is able to answer every question and gets the job. What has your client demonstrated?

Generilization

The goal of a stimulus preference assessment is what?

Identify possible motivators

When Tammy throws a tantrum, mom takes away her Barbie Dolls, and the tantrums decrease. What is happening?

Negative Punishment

Bri is working on functional communication with her daughter. She wants her daughter to make requests appropriately. Bri will play a song that she knows her daughter does not like. Only when Bri's daughter says "please stop playing this song" will Bri stop playing the song. Stopping the song is ____________?

Negative Reinforcement

Grace provides her client a break when she earns 5 tokens. Grace also provides her client with two bonus tokens before DTT starts. The bonus tokens represent extra minutes on break. Grace utilizes a FR3 schedule and a response cost. What type of procedure is a response cost?

Negative punishment

Jake is a 12-year-old boy who lives at home with his dad. Jake will often interrupt his dad's work calls at inappropriate times. It was determined that the function of this behavior was attention from Jake's dad. Your BCBA instructs you to give Jake attention every 3 minutes continuously while Jake's dad is on a work call. What type of intervention does this most likely represent?

Non-contingent Reinforcement (NCR)

John is working on functions, features, and categories with his client. John taught his client that an apple fit into the fruit category. John's client now says "fruit" when he sees an apple. John's client also says "fruit" when he sees grapes, bananas, and pears. What is John's client demonstrating?

Stimulus generalization

What is the ultimate goal of reinforcement?

That the client will receive reinforcement from the natural environment

Which of the following is an example of automatic negative reinforcement?

You went out with your friends last night, and woke up with a massive headache. You take Tylenol and your headache goes away.

Which of the following is NOT an example of an antecedent intervention?

Your son brings home a great report card so you take him out for ice cream

You have been working with your client for two years. Your client's mom tells you they are going out with friends tomorrow and offers to pay you to babysit. If you accepted, what would you be violating?

dual relationships

Reinforcement can be continuous or intermittent. Behavior on what type of schedule is the hardest to extinguish?

intermittent

You are bitten by a mosquito. The bite starts to itch, so you scratch it. Scratching the itch is what?

negative reinforcement

Tiffany is mand training with her client Bella. When Bella asks for water or apples, she should receive water or apples. When Bella asks her mom for water, she is immediately given water. When Bella asks her brother for water, her brother will often ignore her. Bella now only asks her mom for water, and not her brother. What is this considered?

stimulus discrimination

You are told to observe mouthing behavior by your client. You record the first instance of mouthing after 10 minutes, the second instance after 15 minutes, and the third instance after 30 minutes. What is the average interreponse time?

10 minutes

When should you deliver a prompt?

After the SD, before the response

Every time Alex yells out in class he is sent to the principal's office. This goes on for two weeks, and Alex's yelling increases. What is happening in this scenario?

Alex's behavior is being reinforced

Continuous reinforcement is also known as ____?

An FR1 schedule

Every day you put your key in the ignition, turn it, and your car starts. Today, your car doesn't start. You begin to aggressively turn the key, push the gas pedal, and pound the steering wheel. What might be happening?

An extinction burst

Every 6 months Miranda receives her favorite bottle of wine from her boss as a thank you gift for her hard work throughout the year. The last two times Miranda received this gift, her siblings drank the entire bottle when they visited for the weekend. The next time her siblings visited her, Miranda hid the bottle and served other wine. What type of intervention did Miranda implement?

Antecedent

You are teaching your client how to boil noodles for spaghetti. You prompt then to take out the pot, fill it with water, put it on the stove, turn the stove on, wait for the water to boil, put the noodles in, check the noodles to see if they are ready, and then you provide them praise as reinforcement for draining the noodles when done. What type of task chaining are you implementing?

Backward

Which of the following is true about stimulus preference assessments?

Certain stimulus preference assessments can establish a hierarchy

What is not an example of discrimination?

Calling all women you see "mom"

You just passed your RBT exam and are assigned your first case. Your client is a 13-year-old girl who engages in severe aggression towards others. Before you start the case, which of the following answer choices should be established?

Crisis/emergency plan

Jen's husband golfs every Sunday morning with his buddies. Whenever he comes home he leaves his muddy shoes in the middle of the floor and Jen scolds him. Jen decides she will now give verbal attention to her husband when he puts his shoes in the closet, and will ignore him when he puts his shoes in the middle of the floor. What procedure is she using?

DRI

Jennifer has four children. She cooks them all breakfast each morning. Jennifer's 5-year-old son, who you work with in the morning, will throw his food at the other siblings while at the breakfast table. After an assessment, your BCBA determined that the food throwing was maintained by attention. Your BCBA instructed you to praise your client, and provide him with attention, every 2 minutes that he doesn't throw food. What type of intervention are you implementing?

DRO

This differential reinforcement relies on the absence of a behavior

DRO

In this type of teaching there is an antecedent, a behavior, a consequence, and a brief pause before the next antecedent.

DTT

When we refer to baseline data we are referring to?

Data taken before intervention is put in place

Micah is generally well-behaved, but prefers staying up late with his family. Whenever Micah's mom says "time to get ready for bed," Micah will start to cry, and beg to stay up late. What function most likely describes Micah's response to mom saying "time to get ready for bed?"

Escape/Avoidance

Extinction, along with reinforcement and punishment, is a behavior change principle. Of the following answer choices, what does not accurately represent extinction?

Extinction works as a punishment procedure

Which of the following would be the best way to fade reinforcement from thickest schedule to thinnest schedule?

FR -> FI -> VR

What is the best reinforcement schedule for teaching a new skill?

FR1

At dinner, you make your Bumble date choose their favorite food: seafood or steak. What type of preference assessment did you conduct?

Forced choice

You are teaching someone how to shoot pool. You start by holding their arms and demonstrating the motion. You then only put your hands on their elbows. You then remove the prompt all together. What are you implementing?

Gradual guidance

You and your friends have a tradition where you set off hundreds of dollars of fireworks on the Fourth of July. Since you are preparing for your RBT exam, you want to measure one aspect of the fireworks. You are most interested in the length of time it takes to set off one firework after the last one went off. What would be the most appropriate measurement to use to track this?

IRT

You want to measure the time in between placing orders on amazon. What are you measuring?

IRT

Dave is using a token economy to reinforce his client as his client completes math problems. Dave delivers a token every couple of problems that his client completes independently. What best describes this type of reinforcement?

Intermittent

Johnny's teacher says "OK, class who can tell me what 2+2 is". Johnny responds with "4!" What verbal operant does this describe?

Intraverbal

You say "1, 2" and your client says "3." You then say "old mcdonald had a" and your client says "farm." What are you working on?

Intraverbals

You are upstairs killing time while you cook your frozen pizza in the over. 18 minutes later you hear the oven go off. It takes you 10 seconds to start walking to the oven. The 10 seconds represents what?

Latency

Which of the following is NOT an example of a punishment?

Louis continues to disrupt the class. Every time he does, the teacher yells at him and says "I'm going to send you to timeout."

As your friend is leaving your house, you notice they left their phone on the counter. You yell to your friend "wait!" causing your friend to turn around. Seein the phone is a?

MO

You and your friends are watching the Super Bowl. A commercial advertising Taco Bell's new Gordita Crunch is shown. You all suddenly agree that you have to go get Taco Bell at half time. The commercial functions as a _____?

MO

There are advantages to permanent product recording. Which of the following answer choices best describes permanent product recording?

Mary was out sick on the day she was supposed to give a quiz. She asked the substitute to distribute the quiz anyway. The next day, Mary graded and scored the student's performance

Which of the following is the last step in a skill acquisition plan?

Modify the plan if necessary

Tim is working in a clinic setting. Every day, 4 clients eat lunch at 11am and 4 eat lunch at 12pm. Tim is responsible for taking data on his client's eating behavior, but must also make sure the other clients are eating. Every 3 minutes Tim will look at his client and record whether or not his client is eating. What kind of measurement is this?

Momentary time sampling

Tammy wants to go to a party this weekend. Her mom tells Tiffany that if her homework is done when mom gets home from work, she is allowed to go to the party. What would be the best way for mom to measure this goal?

Permanent Product

You are assigned to a BCBA to assist in an assessment for a brand new client. During the course of the assessment, you ask your client "say your name", "give me a high five", "what is 2+2", and several other basic questions. What are you doing?

Probing

You spent the first month with your client managing behaviors and identifying reinforcers. This week, your BCBA wants you to identify what your client can and can't do in terms of skills. What procedure are you most likely going to implement?

Probing procedures

Frequency and rate are often used interchangeably in behavior analysis. What is the distinction between the two?

Rate is frequency with a time component added

What is the difference between frequency and rate?

Rate is frequency with a time component added

You are working with a client in an adult group home. Your client is a heavy drinker who wants to quit drinking. With your help, your BCBA develops a behavior contract stating that your client will not have more than three drinks per week for the next month. Your client upholds his end of the contract for the first two weeks, then on the third week your client expresses he wants out of the behavior contract, and is going to have four drinks that night. What should you do?

Recommend to the client they continue with the contract, but it is ultimately their choice

Ben wanted to learn how to order his own meal at the local sushi restaurant. You worked with Ben on ordering a California roll from the menu on his own. Once Ben learned how to order the California roll, Ben started ordering chicken teriyaki, salmon rolls, and spicy tuna rolls from the menu. Ben's ordering is an example of __________?

Response Generalization

A ___ signals that reinforcement is available

SD

Functional communication training is commonly used in ABA to teach clients how to communicate with those around them. During FCT you will reinforce successive approximations of desired communication. What is this called?

Shaping

Which of the following best describes behavior?

Susan dropped her pencil, and then turned on the light

Your role in a functional assessment as an RBT is?

To assist with the assessment

Bobby works with a 19-year-old client who wants to learn to shop for his own groceries. The client is able to make a list and locate the items, but struggles using the self-checkout machines at the grocery store. The client is able to scan the items, place them in the bag, and run his credit card, but sometimes forgets what button to push before running the credit card, and how to complete the transaction. When Bobby works on this with his client, Bobby lets the client do the check-out process independently, and only teaches the steps the client doesn't know. What type of task chain teaching is this?

Total task chaining

Your client is learning how to prepare dinner for his family. He recently learned to cook spaghetti and meatballs independently except for boiling the water and adding seasoning. What method would be best to teach your client these steps?

Total task chaining

You are planning a trip with your group of friends. You start a group chat with everyone in it. Your phone vibrates every 1 to 3 minutes. What schedule matches the schedule of your phone vibrating?

VI2

What reinforcement schedule is the most productive and resistant to extinction?

VR

Which of the following reinforcement schedules is based on an average number of correct responses?

VR3

Your BCBA designs a token economy to use during discrete trial training. Your BCBA wants to target sitting in a chair, responding in a timely manner, and working promptly. Your BCBA instructs you to provide tokens every 3-5 correct responses. What answer choice accurately describes the reinforcement schedule you will be using?

VR4

Which of the following is NOT an example of a prompt?

When you ask your client want 2+2 is, you give them marbles to count. Your client answers "2+2 = 6"

You spent the last month recording frequency data on how often your client insults their siblings. Your frequency data is broken down by the number of insults per session. You took data for a total of 10 sessions. If your BCBA asked you to graph this data, where would you record the frequency of insults data?

Y-axis

In which of the following scenarios would duration be the most appropriate measurement?

You are driving to the beach. You make a bet with a friend that your route is faster than theirs.

Punishment can be either socially mediated or automatic. Which of the following is the best example of automatic punishment?

You buy a brand new sweatshirt from a popular online store. When it arrives, you wear it for a day, but it is too tight and itchy. You no longer wear the sweatshirt.

What behavior is the most observable and measurable?

You fall asleep in class

Which of the following is the best example of imitation?

You prepare a special meal by pulling up a YouTube video and copying the cooking instructor's actions

A motivating operation _____ and an SD _____?

alters the value of a reinforcer, signals a reinforcer is available

Which of the following describes a contingency?

an if-then statement

Bobby is working with a client in-home. The client's mom wants the client to be able to prepare their own breakfast. Bobby teaches the client to make scrambled eggs using a task chain procedure. Bobby helps the client by getting out the plate and utensils. The client turns on the stove, heats the pan, puts butter in the pan, cracks the eggs in the pan, scrambles the eggs, puts them on a plate, and turns off the stove. One day, Bobby does not put out the plate. What is he implementing?

behavior chain interruption strategy (BCIS)

A student walks up to the teacher and says "may I go to the bathroom?" What type of behavior is this?

mand

As an RBT you may be asked to conduct indirect assessments and measurements. Which of the following is an example of indirect measurement?

surveys

The process of breaking down a skill into smaller, more manageable components by doing the task yourself, or watching someone else do the task, is called?

task analysis

Which of the following is an abscissa?

x-axis

Which of the following is known as the ordinate?

y-axis