Measurement & Data Collection
This continuous measurement tracks the total number of times a discrete behavior occurs.
What is Frequency
These are the four universal functions of behavior.
What are Sensory, Escape, Attention, and Tangible
This formal teaching method relies on structured, fast-paced, repetitive trials consisting of an SD, a response, and a consequence.
What is Discrete Trial Training
RBTs must never enter into romantic, financial, or overly personal relationships with clients or their families to avoid this ethical violation.
What is a Dual Relationship
The professional term an RBT uses to describe a client's enthusiastic, unprompted sprint away from the work table.
What is Elopement
The time that elapses between the presentation of an antecedent (SD) and the start of the behavior.
What is latency
The temporary, sharp increase in the frequency, intensity, or duration of a behavior when an extinction procedure is first started.
What is an Extinction Burst
An extra antecedent stimulus used to guide the learner to the correct answer, which must be systematically faded out.
What is a Prompt
The minimum percentage of an RBT's monthly behavior-analytic service hours that must be actively supervised by a BCBA.
What is 5%
This everyday item is an RBT’s best friend for counting high-frequency behaviors without having to write on a data sheet every two seconds.
What is a Hand Tally Counter (or Clicker)
You record whether a behavior occurred at any point during a specific time interval, which typically overestimates behavior.
What is Partial-Interval Recording
A behavior reduction procedure where you reinforce a specific behavior that cannot physically coexist with the problem behavior.
What is Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior
Breaking down a complex, multi-step skill into smaller, teachable, and sequential steps.
What is a Task Analysis
If an RBT suspects physical abuse or neglect of a vulnerable client, they are legally required to do this immediately.
File a report with Child/Adult Protective Services
While it sounds like a fancy coffee order, this term actually refers to an RBT intentionally ignoring a minor problem behavior to withdraw attention.
What is Planned Ignoring
This continuous data metric measures the elapsed time between two consecutive instances of the same behavior.
What is Interresponse Time
This intervention involves delivering reinforcement only when the problem behavior has not occurred for a specific duration of time.
What is Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior
Reinforcing successive approximations toward a final desired target behavior.
What is Shaping
Not talking about a client negatively, allowing them choices when appropriate, and using age-appropriate language are all core to maintaining this.
What is Client Dignity
The technical term an RBT uses when a client perfectly mimics a phrase from their favorite Disney movie or YouTube video hours after hearing it.
What is scripting
This variation of interval recording requires the behavior to persist uninterrupted throughout the entire interval for it to be scored, which typically underestimates high-rate behavior.
What is Whole-Interval Recording
his type of antecedent intervention alters the current value of a stimulus as a reinforcer, either increasing it (establishing) or decreasing it (abolishing)
What is a Motivating Operation (MO)
The process of teaching a client to perform a newly learned skill across different settings, with different people, or using different materials.
What is Generalization
If an RBT's supervisor directs them to implement a procedure that clearly violates the BACB Ethics Code, the RBT must first take this specific professional action.
What is Bring the concern directly to the supervisor to resolve it ethically
The professional phrase an RBT uses to tell their supervisor that a client's favorite toy has officially lost its magic powers and no longer works as a reward
What is Satiation