What's the Function?
These are the four functions of behavior.
What are attention, access, sensory, and escape?
This is the term for building a therapeutic relationship with the client.
What is pairing?
This is the person who is responsible for knowing and following the RBT ethical code.
Who is the RBT?
This is the term for measuring how long a behavior lasts.
What is duration?
This is the best response to give a parent who is asking a question you do not know the answer to.
What is "I am not sure, but I will talk to my BCBA and get back to you?"
This is the kind of data that RBTs collect to help hypothesize the function of the client's behavior.
What is ABC data?
This is the verbal operant you are reinforced with what you ask for.
What is a mand?
This is the response an RBT should give when the family asks for the RBT to join them for dinner.
This is where every instance of a behavior is recorded.
What is frequency? (Or continuous measurement)
Your client cannot communicate verbally, and therefore may use one of these forms of alternative communication.
What is PECS, augmentative device, and/or sign language?
The antecedent is the RBT and parent talking, the behavior is crying, and the consequence is the parent comforting the client.
What is attention?
This is a side effect of extinction where behaviors are likely to increase in intensity and new behaviors may also occur.
What is an extinction burst?
This is the term for someone who is required ethically, and by law, to report any suspicion of abuse or neglect.
What is a mandated reporter?
This is a discontinuous measurement where intervals are used, and you only count the it if the behavior occurred during the entire interval.
What is whole interval recording?
This term is another phrase used in reinforcement schedules for a set number of responses.
What is a fixed ratio?
The antecedent is the client watching TV by themselves, the behavior is biting their fingers, and the consequence is that they continue to watch TV.
What is sensory/automatic?
This is the term for when successive approximations are used to get closer and closer to an end goal.
What is shaping?
This is where TA staff and parents can find information about who the RBT can coordinate and share information with.
What are the intake forms?
This is the measure of time between consecutive responses.
What is inter response time? (IRT?)
This is an antecedent intervention(s) that can may be helpful to your client who has difficulty with transitions.
What is a timer / verbal warnings / visual schedule?
The antecedent is cleaning up, the behavior is SIB, the consequence is redirecting the client to play on their iPad.
What is escape?
This is the kind of differential reinforcement where reinforcement is provided if any behavior OTHER than the target behavior occurs for a period of time.
What is a DRO?
This is the most appropriate caption for posting a picture with a client.
What is none because it is not ethical to post your client's picture anywhere?
This is the term for behavioral data that is NOT taken throughout the entire session.
What is discontinuous measurement?
This term means that something is valuable to the client / they are motivated by it.
What is an establishing operation?