ABLLS
Parenting VS Therapy
Functional Communication Training
Misc. Work Place Questions
The Four Functions Of Behavior
100

What is does ABLLS stand for?

A) Apples Bananas Legumes Lettuce and Salt

B) Applied Behavioral Legislative Logical Systems

C) Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills

D) Action Beasts Last Laugh Season 2

C) Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills

100
Every interaction with a client should be purposeful and... 


A) Facilitate learning opportunities

B) Be based of intuition

C) Be for your own amusement

D) make them laugh

A) Facilitate learning opportunities

100

FCT stands for? 

A) Free Cat Tuesday

B) Foundational Communication Test

C) Functional Communication Training

D) Federal Carrot Time

C) Functional Communication Training

100

Information provided in an ABC sheet concerning a behavior that happened during session should be? ( assume this is for a client without a BIP or for a behavior that is not included in a BIP, or a novel behavior)

A) one word and objective

B) descriptive, subjective and one sentence long

C) objective and describe observable events with as much detail as possible

D) include hearts above the i's and smiley faces

C) objective and describe observable events with as much detail as possible

100

What are the four functions of behavior?

A) Sleeping, Eating, Drinking and Talking

B) Access to tangible, Control, Escape or Avoidance, Sensory

C) Escape/Avoidance, Automatic/Sensory, Access to tangible, Attention

D) Living, Breathing, Eating, Sleeping 

C) Escape/Avoidance, Automatic/Sensory, Access to tangible, Attention

200
What is needed to complete ABLLS?

A) Teamwork, communication, preparation, pen and paper, stimuli and an ABLLS binder

B) Teamwork, communication, preparation and an ABLLS binder

C) ABLLS binder, stimuli paper and pen

D) ABLLS binder 

A) Teamwork, communication, preparation, pen and paper, stimuli and an ABLLS binder

200

Three questions we should ask ourselves after interacting with a client is

1] What did the client learn?

2] Did I inadvertently reinforce maladaptive behaviors? 

3]

A) What time is lunch?

B) What do they do at home?

C) Did I loose rapport or gain rapport?

D) Why am I working here?

C) Did I loose rapport or gain rapport?

200
Functional Communication training is what type of intervention based on Cooper and Heron book? 


A) consequence

B) intermediate

C) practical

D) antecedent

D) antecedent

200

You are filling out a datasheet in the morning. The program is at a 2. The target is at 70%. The client responded correctly 3/5 opportunities. What should you do with the datasheet?

A) highlight the program in green and fill in the date at the back of the skills tracking

B) highlight the program yellow and fill in the date at the back of the skills tracking

C) double it and leave it for the next person

D) The program goes back to 0 

D) The program goes back to 0

200

The function of eating, sleeping, scratching and itch, flapping hands, and stimming in general is considered?

A) Attention

B) Automatic/Sensory

C) Escape/Avoidance

D) Control

B) Automatic/Sensory

300

What is the first step to completing ABLLS?

A) Avoid doing it because you do not know how

B) Start wherever and just keep going

C) Complete parts of the assessment you are confident the client will score a 0 or maximum points on

D) Just pair the whole time

C) Complete parts of the assessment you are confident the client will score a 0 or maximum points on

300

Which of the following statements is true?

A) Therapist should make up interventions as he goes along

B) Therapist should try to intimidate the clients

C) Therapists should not invent their own interventions

D) Therapist should be far away from their clients at all times

C) Therapists should not invent their own interventions

300

Functional Communication Training can be used as a replacement for problem behavior by teaching what?

A) A polite way of asking for something

B) A card trick

C) a new game 

D) appropriate communicative behavior

D) appropriate communicative behavior

300

You are filling out a datasheet in the morning. Nothing is highlighted. The program is at 2. The target is at 40% and the client responded correctly 4/5 times. What do you do?

A) highlight the program yellow on the old datasheet, fill in the date in the skills tracking, write down the next program target on the new datasheet, highlight the program green on the new datasheet and fill in the introduction date in the skills tracking

B) leave the program at a 2 on the new datasheet, highlight the program yellow on the new datasheet, fill the date in the skills tracking.

C) change the program to a 0 on the new datasheet, highlight it green on the new datasheet and record the intro date in the back of the skills tracking

D) just avoid doing a datasheet today

A) highlight the program yellow on the old datasheet, fill in the date in the skills tracking, write down the next program target on the new datasheet, highlight the program green on the new datasheet and fill in the introduction date in the skills tracking

300

A client is alone in a room with a computer that is loudly playing music. The client throws the laptop on the ground and the music stops playing. The function of this behavior is most likely?

A) Escape/Avoidance

B) Access to tangible

C) Attention

D) Automatic/Sensory

A) Escape/Avoidance

400

Approximately how many skills should be assessed per week to complete the ABLLS within 5-6 weeks?

A)10

B) 150

C) 90

D) 60


C) 90

400

How should therapist try to reduce maladaptive behaviors? 

A) Implementing the BIP if it is written

B) Warning the clients they will lose access to something if they continue

C) Rationally explaining why its not a good idea to do what the clients are currently doing

D) Staring at the client until they stop doing what they are doing

A) Implementing the BIP if it is written

400

Functional Communication Training can be a part of quality ABA therapy because it can...

A) Make kids stop crying

B) Teach kids how to sing

C) Reduce maladaptive behaviors and increase opportunities for social interactions

D) Can be used to complete multiple parts of the VBMAPPS assessment

C) Reduce maladaptive behaviors and increase opportunities for social interactions

400

If ADP is not working, you should?

A) Just complain about your hours in your next paycheck 

B) Just clock in when you get to work and clock in when work is over

C) Take a screenshot showing ADP is not working for each clock in (arrival, lunch in/out leaving work) the same day

D) Message Brittny or Stephanie on the weekend and ask them to correct your hours

C) Take a screenshot showing ADP is not working for each clock in (arrival, lunch in/out leaving work) the same day

400

If a client is alone in a room, and engages in a behavior we can conclude that the function of the behavior is?

A) Attention

B) Access to Tangible

C) Automatic/Sensory

D) Escape/Avoidance

C) Automatic/Sensory

500

We should write what next to every part of the assessment we complete?

A) Emoji

B) Name

C) Name and Date

D) Initials and Date

D) Initials and Date

500

ABA therapy does not intend to reduce behavior that is rude, True or False?

A) True

B) False

A) True

500

What is a motivating operation?

A) an operation that inspires a client to do something 

B) a variable that changes an operation's effectiveness with regards to motivation which may or may not take place in an environment with stimuli. This could be punishing or reinforcing.

C) an environmental variable that (a) alters (increases or decreases) the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event; and all behavior that has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus, object, or event.

D) a mathematical operation that involves variables that are behavioral related 

C) an environmental variable that (a) alters (increases or decreases) the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event; and all behavior that has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus, object, or event.

500

If you complete one thing on the cleaning list, you should?

A) sit down and browse your phone until 4:30

B) just leave without telling anyone

C) do another thing on the cleaning list

D) pretend to be busy

C) do another thing on the cleaning list

500

If a client consistently engages in a behavior and is admonished for it and the behavior continues to occur and is continuously admonished for it we can conclude that the function of the behavior may be? 

A) Escape/Avoidance

B) Attention

C) Automatic/Sensory

D) Access to tangible

B) Attention