Measurement
Assessment
Skill Acquisition
Behavior Reduction
Professionalism and Requirements
100

Bill is running a hurdle race. He starts running 2 seconds after the race starts, runs for 2 minutes and jumps over a hurdle every 30 seconds. The 2 seconds represents which measurement

What is latency? 

100

The preference assessment that presents two stimuli in an array at a time. 

What is paired choice preference assessment? 

100

You are teaching your client to tie their shoes. You complete the first few steps and they complete the remaining steps. You are teaching using this procedure. 

What is backwards chaining? 

100

You prompt a client to throw a ball on a VI15 minute schedule in hopes to decrease motivation for throwing dangerous objects. You are implementing this procedure. 

What is an antecedent intervention? 

100

You are required to renew your RBT competency this often: 

What is once every two years? 

200

A BCBA is observing a client who engages in hand flapping. The behavior occurs at a high rate and each instance lasts only a few seconds. The BCBA wants to measure every occurrence of the behavior during a 30-minute session

What is frequency? 

200

Another name for a paired choice preference assessment.

What is forced choice preference assessment? 

200

A client is working on receptive identification of objects. This target most close closely relates to this skill acquisition principle. 

What is discrimination training? 

200

A client keeps trying to kick you. You prompt him to sit in a chair. You are using this differential reinforcement procedure. 

What is DRA? 

200

A client disrobes in the gym so the BIP is updated to include covering the client with a blanket. This addition to the BIP is addressing this RBT competency task list item. 

What is client dignity? 

300

Discontinuous measurement procedure you would most likely use to initially work on increasing parallel play skills.

What is whole interval recording?

300

The type of graph typically used to represent ABC data.

What is a bar graph? 

300

You are teaching your client to follow instructions to clap their hands. The client loves the song "if you're happy and you know it" and requests that you sing it. You sing, "if you're happy and you know it clap your hands" and then pause for the client to clap their hands. You are using this teaching methodology.

What is NET? 

300

A problem behavior is maintained by attention. You instruction the BT to withhold eye contact, to not provide any vocal feedback, to not respond to the client until they have stopped engaging in the problem behavior. You are instructing them to use this procedure. 

What is extinction? 

300

At drop off, a parent reports a difficult week with a lot of self injury. The parent asks you (the RBT) what is written in the BIP and how you respond when their child engages in this behavior. Answering this question would violate which RBT competency task list item. 

What is clinical direction? 

400

This discontinuous measurement method tends to overestimate the occurrence of behavior.

What is partial interval recording? 

400

Data collection procedure that involves writing a brief description of what occurs before, during and after a given behavior. 

What is ABC narrative recording? 

400

Your client is jumping on the trampoline and you transition them off to place a demand to play catch with a peer. The demand to play catch uses this teaching methodology. 

What is DTT? 

400

You implement a program to increase the number of times the client mands per hour. If a client mands more than 10 times per hour, they can select a toy from a prize box. You are implementing this procedure. 

What is a DRH? 

400

The number of professional development credits required to renew RBT competency. 

What is 12? 

500

PLACHECK is synonymous which this method of measurement.

What is momentary time sampling? 

500
Data collection procedure with checklists to select from for what happens before, during and after a given behavior.
What is ABC continuous recording? 
500

You want to teach a client to clap their hands but the demand "clap hands" does not evoke the behavior. You use most to least prompting and fade the prompts until the vocal instruction alone does evoke the behavior. The process of transferring control from the full physical prompt to the vocal demand describes this principle. 

What is stimulus control transfer? 

500

A procedure is implemented to decrease the amount of questions a client asks per hour. You don't want to decrease the behavior to zero to maintain conversation skills but want to decrease the questions to a more socially appropriate rate. He earns reinforcement for asking no more than 10 questions per hour. You are using this procedure to decrease repetitive questions. 

What is DRD? 

500

HANDS requires that BCBAs review this percent of direct session notes. 

What is 10%?