Measurement & Documentation
This is how you measure how many times a behavior has been observed.
frequency
The BACB stands for ______________.
Behavior Analyst Certification Board
The prompting strategy requires prompts in the following order:
Full Physical - Partial Physical - Modeling - Gesture
Most-to-Least Prompts
Reinforcement is provided for every response.
Continuous reinforcement or FR1
In our line of work, because we are legally considered to be one of these, we must report any knowledge or suspicion of abuse or neglect to CPS or APS.
mandatory reporter
This is how you measure how long a behavior occurs.
duration
The BACB has begun to require anyone who conducts ABA to meet basic training and supervision requirements as an RBT, which stands for...
Registered Behavior Technician
Which prompt is the least intrusive?
Gesture, Partial Physical or Hand-under-Hand
Gesture
A teacher delivers a student a break from independent seated work after exactly 1 hour since their last break. This is describing what schedule of reinforcement:
Fixed Interval
Alice is Anna's BCBA supervisor, but they are also roommates. This kind of relationship is not necessarily a bad thing, but Alice must be very careful to establish boundaries.
multiple/dual relationship
Every 5 minutes, you are recording whether or not Erica is staying in her seat for the entire 5 minutes over the course of a 30-minute class and then calculating how much time she remained seated. You are using what type of recording procedure?
whole interval recording
The BCBA will frequently perform _____ to ensure procedural fidelity of the client's program.
Treatment Integrity Checks
This prompting strategy highlights specific features of the correct answer when compared to the incorrect answers. Over time, the highlighted features are reduced until there is no visual cue to indicate the correct answer.
Stimulus Fading
The BCBA delivers praise 5 times on average for each correct response. Sometimes the BCBA delivers praise after 4 correct responses and sometimes after 7 correct responses. What schedule of reinforcement is being implemented?
Variable Ratio
Camille is on the Board of Directors and owns a local vineyard. The board is deciding on wine and food for it's upcoming fund-raising event. Camille is the Chair of the Development committee and would normally lead this discussion and vote on it. Because of this ethical dilemma, she leaves the room and lets the other committee members make this decision.
conflict of interest
You are keeping track of how many silverware sets were wrapped during Pete's shift so that you can track Pete's progress at Outback with silverware preparation. What type of recording are you using when you measure?
permanent product recording
After RBT training class is over, your BCBA MUST complete a __________ before you apply to take your written test.
competency assessment
This type of prompting strategy does not allow for mistakes.
Errorless Learning
This reinforcement schedule is the most effective at maintaining behavior over a length of time.
Variable Schedule or Intermittent Schedule
A new staff person is hired to act an Interventionist/RBT for Community Works. She is great with the clients and the parents really like her. She decides to start a parent support group at the library after Community Works so that she can provide more support to families.
Her supervisor informs her that she cannot do this because she has not had the proper training and does not have the necessary credentials to do this. What is the ethical mistake this RBT made?
Working outside of your scope
What is the most common graph used in applied behavior analysis?
line graph
How much of your time working with a client must be supervised by a BCBA?
5 percent
This has occurred when the prompt has become the Sd for the behavior.
Prompt Reliance / Prompt Dependence
A client had two independent reinforcement schedules in place for two different unrelated behaviors. What type of reinforcement schedule is this?
RBT's must have at least this many hours of training on ethics and professional conduct.
3 hours