Measurement
Skill Acquisition
Behavior Reduction
Ethics
Basic Concepts
30

The continuous measurement that is another word for "count".

What is frequency?

30

The type of skill acquisition in which the first step is giving the client an SD and the last step is checking fluency of the skill

What is discrete trial training

30

Dr. Barnes says "good job!" each time a therapist correctly performs discrete trial, hoping this will increase the therapists behavior in the future. This is an example of

What is positive reinforcement

30

An RBT says that the client they are working with is never going to be able to talk and they hate working with him. This is an example of failing to maintain ________ 

What is client dignity

30

When a child asks for something (makes a request), this is called a _____

What is a mand?

50

The measurement that underestimates the behavior

What is whole interval?

50
The skill acquisition procedure that breaks down a complex skill into more attainable steps

What is a task analysis

50

A child has always been reinforced when they scream. When coming to the clinic, the child starts screaming to get an ice cream cone. When the therapist doesn't give them the ice cream cone, the child starts banging their head and biting the therapist to try and get the ice cream cone. This is an example of

What is an extinction burst

50

An RBT goes to a client's house on the weekends to babysit while the parents go out to dinner. This is an example of _____

What is a dual relationship

50

When presenting a tacting target, the prompt used is a ______

What is a vocal prompt?

100

Name the types of continuous measurement

What is frequency, rate, duration, latency, and interresponse time.

100

Cassie and Tae are at the petting zoo. Tae looks over at the animal in the cage and says "look! it's a zebra!" This is an example of what verbal operant

What is a tact

100
Name the four functions of behavior
Sensory (automatic reinforcement), escape, attention, tangible item
100

A therapist posts pictures of all of the clients on Facebook from the Hope 4 Autism's Christmas party. This is breaking

What is confidentiality
100

Your client, in an episode of aggression, kicks a hole in the wall. The hole in the wall is considered

What is a permanent product

150

After 3.5 seconds of prompting Jenny, she finally got up and placed her dishes in the dishwasher, which took her 6 seconds to complete. In this scenario, 6 seconds refers to:

What is duration

150

The task analysis that is used to allow clients to meet reinforcement the quickest?

What is backwards chaining

150

Name the types of differential reinforcement

What is differential reinforcement of alternative behavior, (DRA), differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO), and differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior (DRI), differential reinforcement of low rates (DRL), and differential reinforcement of high rates (DRH). 

150

At a minimum, supervisors should retain documents for ______

What is 7 years?

150

If a client’s preferred reinforcement is juice, and the client is given saltine crackers as a snack before DTT begins, the ________ for juice has been increased.

What is a motivating operation?

200

The stoplight turned green. 1.2 seconds later James pressed the gas pedal. James pressed the gas pedal for 17 seconds until he saw a police car. .5 seconds after seeing the police car, James pressed the brake pedal. The latency of pushing the gas pedal is

What is 1.2 seconds

200

Client X can’t pronounce the word spaghetti. He can say “spuh” and “t” but he cannot say “spaghetti”. This skill acquisition would be used to increase the social validity of his pronunciation of “spaghetti”

What is shaping?

200

Tom receives praise every time he does not hit his head for 30 seconds. Praise is withheld if Tom engages in hitting his head. This type of differential reinforcement is

What is differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO)

200

4 pillars of ethical responsible ethical behavior

What is Professionalism, Boundaries, Confidentiality, and Do no harm (no specific order)

200

A set or collection of knowledge and skills a person has learned and can do that are relevant to a particular setting or task

What is repertoire