Vocabulary Definitions
A measure of the total extent of time in which a behavior occurs.
What is duration?
Frequency
What is a ratio of count per observation time?
True or false: RBTs can post a photo of a client on their personal social media account if their account is private?
What is false? Code 2.09.
True or False: when working with a client in their home, it is okay to be home alone with the client for less than 15 minutes.
What is false? You should never be alone with the client in their home.
When thinking about increasing your number of trials in a session, you may remember her amazing dance moves.
Who is Danielle?
Occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that increases the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions.
What is positive reinforcement?
Shaping
What is using differential reinforcement to produce a series of gradually changing response classes; each response class is a successive approximation toward a terminal behavior?
RBTs do not give gifts to or accept gifts from clients, stakeholders, or supervisors with a monetary value of more than ___ dollars.
What is $10? Code 1.11.
You are working with a client at their school, and the dress code of the school is more strict than the dress code at Elevation. Which dress code should you follow?
What is the dress code of the school?
You can find her shredding down the Deer Valley slopes and skiing off cliffs in her free time.
Who is Jaime?
The extent to which the learner continues to perform the target behavior after a portion or all of the intervention has been terminated.
What is maintenance?
Positive punishment
What is when a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that decreases the future frequency of the behavior?
If an RBT finds that a multiple relationship has developed, they inform their supervisor
A. Within 24 hours.
B. Immediately.
C. The next time they see them in person.
What is B. immediately? Code 1.10.
If you do not feel comfortable reporting an issue to your supervisor, who should you talk to next?
Who is the director (Danielle)?
She can't whistle.
Who is Ifan?
Reinforcement that occurs independent of the social mediation of others.
What is automatic reinforcement?
Satiation
What is a decrease in the frequency of operant behavior presumed to be the result of continued contact with or consumption of a reinforcer that has followed the behavior?
True or false: as an RBT, you can be an employer of your supervisor?
What is false? Code 1.04.
Give an example of an appropriate use of your cell phone during session.
What is texting the supervisor about the session, taking data, use as a learning tool, in case of an emergency?
She can mimic the sound of a chipmunk.
Who is Stephanie?
An elementary verbal operant that is evoked by an MO and followed by specific reinforcement.
What is a mand?
Procedural fidelity
What is the extent to which the independent variable is applied exactly as planned and described and no other unplanned variables are administered inadvertently along with the planned treatment?
Name one event that you are required to self-report to the BACB if it were to occur.
What is any event that might impact your ability to effectively carry out the RBT services or comply with BACB requirements? Examples: legal charges, investigations naming the RBT, disciplinary actions by employers or other institutions, or physical/mental conditions or substance use that may impair the RBT's ability to safely provide services. Code 3.04.
In regards to confidentiality, we are bound by what five letter acronym that protects client health information?
What is HIPPA? (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996)
She was homeschooled her entire life?
Who is Ifan?