ABA Basics
The three-term contingency: antecedent, behavior and _______________.
What is consequence?
Recording every time a behavior occurs?
What is frequency data?
The governing body that oversees RBT credentialing and certification.
What is the BACB?
Teaching a child to wave goodbye is an example of teaching this kind of skill.
What is a social skill?
The code called if there is a fire emergency.
What is Code Red?
The process of teaching a complex skill by breaking it down into smaller steps.
What is the chaining?
If you're tracking how long a child remains engaged with a puzzle after a prompt, you're measuring this.
What is duration?
A parent offers you a gift valued over $10 during the Holidays. Ethically, you should do this.
What is politely decline the gift?
Using flashcards to teach colors is an example of this instructional strategy.
What is Discrete Trial Training (DTT)?
You call this code when someone exhibits a medical emergency.
What is Code Blue?
This is the process of reinforcing closer and closer approximations to a target behavior.
What is shaping?
A BCBA wants you to record whether aggression occurred at any point during a 10-second interval. This method is called this.
What is interval recording?
You accidently overhear another therapist discussing client details in the staff break room. To uphold ethics, you should do this.
What is remind them of confidentiality and report to your supervisor if needed?
A child only responds when given a full verbal prompt. To fix this, you must work on this.
What is prompt fading?
All RBTs respond to this code by covering all exits and announcing that the exits are covered over the walkie while other RBTs work to ensure the patient gets back to their assigned RBT safely.
What is code E?
A BCBA designs a skill acquisition program, but the client only demonstrates the skill when working with you. This problem shows a lack of this concept.
What is generalization?
You're asked to measure the time between giving an instruction and the child starting the task. This is called...
What is latency?
A parent offers to pay you cash to work with their child outside of clinic hours. Accepting this would violate this.
What is the RBT Ethics Code (dual relationships)?
***DAILY DOUBLE***Teaching a child to respond to multiple cues at once, such as "pick up the red crayon," addresses this learning challenge.
What is stimulus control/attending to multiple cues?
You respond to this code by avoiding all exits and windows and keeping patients calm while continuing therapy when possible.
What is "The street is flooded?"
A child tantrums every time the Ipad is removed. The tantrum stops once the Ipad is returned. The tantrum is being maintained by this.
What is negative reinforcement? (escape from loss of preferred item)
You are asked to track a child's aggression, which occurs in bursts of varying intensity. Recording only frequency would miss these differences. This measurement dimension captures the force of severity of behavior.
What is magnitude (or intensity)?
You see a client in public, and their friend asks how you know them. The ethical response is...
What is protect confidentiality and not disclose relationship?
When teaching manding, it's important to use this procedure to ensure the child requests because of motivation, not because you prompted.
What is contriving motivating operations?
You respond to this code by quickly escorting your patient to the nearest room and barricading the door. Lights are turned off and patients/staff remain silent (there are emergency suckers in each room to assist with nervous patients).
What is "The Library is Closed?'