Data Collection
ABA Techniques
Functions of Behavior
Prompting
Billing
100

RBT Jake starts a timer after the teacher says “Write your name on top.” Jake watches Ethan as he plays with his eraser, twists his hair, takes a flexing selfie, goes to sharpen his pencil and then finally Ethan put his pencil to the paper to write the letter “E”. Jake stopped the timer when the pencil touched the paper and then recorded 2 mins 17 seconds in Rethink.

What is latency?

100

Sam asks his fiancé Alyssa to cook steak for dinner. Alyssa, the vegetarian “casually” mentions to Sam that there’s a new martini menu dropping tonight at their favorite karaoke spot. Sam’s jaw drops and he jumps in the shower to get ready to head out for dinner and singing… never mentioning the steak again!

What is redirection?

100

Kyler has baked cookies for her sister. Emma pinches Kyler and when Kyler walks away to tell Lora, Emma grabs a cookie eats it, and then pretend like nothing happened.

What is tangible (access)?

100

"Take a swig". Lora takes Mike's hands and puts them on the tequila bottle, then assists as he lifts the bottle to his mouth and finishes the bottle before she uses his hands to place the bottle back down at. 

What is physical prompting ?

100

Session runs late and you leave at 6:10

Rethink session says end time of 6pm. What is your rethink session verified until?

What is 6:15pm?

200

Liana has a tantrum. Her RBT Emma, writes down what happened before the tantrum, during the tantrum and after the tantrum. Emma knows that doing so can identify possible triggers for the tantrum as well as maintaining variables.

What is ABC data?

200

 Anais sees Nelly picking her nails after scheduling  her BCBA exam. Anais gives Nelly a tray of cosmos to carry across the room and she tells Nelly what a nice job she is going carrying them evenly. 

What is DRI

200

Maya gets a sexy new Invicta watch with a leather strap. When Maya sits at her desk, she sniffs the watch. 

What is sensory (automatic?)

200

While holding the cold and frothy margarita in front of Chloe, Landy makes the sound "mar" which Chloe picks up on and says the word 'Margarita" which Landy then provides to Chloe immediately. The type of prompt that Landy provided 

What is a partial verbal prompt?

200

You leave your client at 4pm but still need to write your session note. This takes you 15 minutes after you finish dinner. Your Rethink end time was 4pm? What time do you verify ending?

What is 4pm? 

300

The RBT Brittany watches Tracy flap her hands for what seems like an eternity. When the timer buzzes, Sam looks up at Tracy who has just put her hands in her lunchbox to take out a piece of carrot cake for snack. Brittany marks a minus on Rethink.

What is momentary time sampling?

300

Liana gets in the car. Her chai latte is so good, and Bey is bumping through the speakers so Liana starts to jam out. But then that annoying ding ding ding is interrupting her flow. So she puts her seatbelt on. The annoying chime stops dinging and Liana drives away to her nail appt. After her nail appt Liana gets in the car and puts her seabelt on IMMEDIATELY because she does not want to hear that ding ding ding sound again!.

What is Negative Reinforcement 

300

Alexa sees the cute neighbor studying next door. She turns her music way UUUPPP. The cute neighbor knocks on the door to complain. Alexa checks the mirror, fixes her hair and smiles before opening the door. Alexa's behavior function is probably...

What is attention? 

300

After watching Kyra reach for the smoked fish dip and miss it two times in a row, Veronica moves the buffalo chicken dip and the artichoke dip away as she positions the smoked fish dip right by her hand. Veronica is using...

What is a positional prompt?

300

You spend 20minutes talking to the caregiver about your weekend after your end time of 3pm while your client is playing out back on the swings. What is your end time?

What is 6pm? And why...