Problem Behavior
An RBT want to set up the session before the client arrives to reduce any chances of problem behavior. Identify what the therapist needs to implement.
What are antecedent interventions?
As an RBT, you are subject to follow these guidelines on PHI, which is anything that can be used to identify an individual.
What is HIPAA?
In this stage, a child can perform a skill after intervention has been completed, with only natural reinforcement.
What is maintenance?
This should be done every single session, especially if a client's motivation changes. This allows us to know what is reinforcing to the client that day.
What is a preference assessment?
This is what all behavior analysts and RBT's abide by.
What is the BACB Professional and Ethical Compliance Code?
During PE, Jimmy is prompted to share a soccer ball with peers. Jimmy becomes upset and attempts to elope the area of PE. RBT redirects Jimmy, but Jimmy covers his ears to not hear the demand. Identify the function.
What is escape?
A client passes gas and peers begin to giggle. The RBT does not giggle or comment on what the client did, and instead redirects the client out of the room where peers are giggling.
What is maintaining client dignity?
A stimuli is removed from the environment as a consequence, leading to the decrease of a behavior.
What is negative punishment?
The father of ABA.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This is who we contact when we suspect abuse.
Who is the BCBA Supervisor?
Sally's favorite toy is a singing princess Ariel from The Little Mermaid. Sally self-soothes by pressing the button on the toy to play a song. Once the batteries run out, Sally's problem behavior escalates because the song no longer plays. Identify what is happening.
What is extinction?
An RBT receives a friend request from a parent and swiftly denies it.
What is maintaining professional boundaries?
Teaching a specific sequence of discrete responses associated with a particular stimulus condition. The first step of the skill is being taught first.
What is a forward chain?
When obtaining a new client, it is very important that we build rapport and become a conditioned reinforcer to the child. We want the child to like us.
What is pairing?
This is where we take our RBT exam.
What is Pearson Vue?
What is Automatic/Escape?
As an RBT, you are required by law to report any suspicion of abuse.
A client is learning how to go to the bathroom. At first, the client walks to the bathroom when the RBT says, "It's time to go to the bathroom". After working on this for 3 months, the client is now able to sense that he needs to go to the bathroom and goes independently.
What is stimulus control transfer/ stimulus fading?
This needs to be so clear that another person who has never met the child could measure the target behavior consistently.
What is an Operational Definition?
This is what happens when we participate in classroom interaction, ask questions, and study.
What is passing the RBT exam?
An RBT is sitting next to a client at the table in a big room. Both sides of the client are open and many reinforcers are around. The client elopes. Identify what the RBT should have done differently.
You are an RBT but also on a board in which you decide what applicant gets a grant. Some of those applicants are your clients.
What are conflicts of interest?
Jimmy engages in spitting behaviors aimed at others. The RBT and analyst have tried different procedures, but Jimmy continues to spit. One day, the RBT decided to have Jimmy spit in a cup instead. They saw a decrease in Jimmy spitting at other people. Identify this procedure.
What is Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior (DRA)?
The antecedent stimulus that is present when a behavior is reinforced.
What is Discriminative Stimulus (SD)?
This is the person you notify when you have submitted payment for your RBT application, when you have signed up for your exam, and when you have passed your exam.
Who is Sean Hanley?