Measurement
You’re recording data on your learner’s self-hitting. You identify that he hit 6 times in a 2-hour session, so you record the data as 3x/hour. Which type of measurement did you use?
What is Rate?
The RBT is working with a new client on identifying preferences. The RBT presents 5 items in front of the child including a car, bubbles, a train, a stuffed animal, and a puzzle. The RBT states to pick one, so the child chooses the bubbles. In the next presentation of the stimuli, the bubbles are taken out of the array and the other items are re-arranged. The RBT instructs the client again to choose one. Which preference assessment is being implemented?
What is Multiple stimulus w/o Replacement?
Natural Environment Teaching (NET) focuses on all of the following, except:
A. Reinforcement is embedded into the task
B. Teaching in natural contexts and settings
C. Highly structured approach with planning of session and controlling conditions
D. Focuses on the child’s immediate interests while looking for “teachable moments”
What is C. Highly structured approach with planning of session and controlling conditions?
An RBT is working with a client whose mother asked her for advice pertaining to their child’s diet and supplements they are taking. The client’s parent is worried that it is affecting the behavior analytic services being provided. Which best describes the course of action the RBT should take?
A. The RBT should offer advice on the client’s diet and supplements
B. The RBT should let the BCBA know and refer the parent to the BCBA
C. Provide the parent with a research article
D. Inform the parent that you will do research and get back to them
What is B. The RBT should let the BCBA know and refer the parent to the BCBA?
Describe the BACB’s RBT supervision requirements. What is the percentage of hours you need to be supervised per month?
What is 5% of the hours you provide therapy per month?
Your BCBA instructs you to take data on how many times your client engages in verbal refusal in 30-minute intervals. What type of data collection is used?
What is Partial interval recording?
The RBT instructed the learner that it is time to go to the classroom to practice tracing lower case letters. Once seated, the learner engages in elopement each time the RBT presents the instruction “Let’s Trace.” Based on the scenario and the 4 functions of behavior, what appears to be the function?
What is Escape?
This type of teaching procedure involves short, quick intervals when learning skills that involve an SD, prompts, responses, and feedback in quick succession. Typically, many trials are run at the table. This describes which teaching procedure:
A. Incidental teaching
B. NET (natural environment teaching)
C. DTT (discrete trial training)
D. Table time teaching
What is DTT (discrete trial teaching)?
Your BCBA is teaching you how to implement an extinction procedure. The goal is decrease property destruction. What could be true when implementing extinction?
A. Extinction is rarely effective
B. Extinction should be implemented at least 50% of the session
C. Ignore the child and turn your back away from them to limit attention
D. There could be an immediate increase in property destruction at first
What is D. There could be an immediate increase in property Destruction at first?
At a minimum, how many years do client data and records need to remain secured at an organization?
What is 7 years?
Your BCBA instructs you that he/she wants you to record how long your clients’ tantrums last. What type of data collection would you use?
What is Duration?
Which of the following is true about a free operant preference assessment?
A. You present your learner with one item at a time and record their response to it.
B.You observe your learner in a natural setting and record what they choose to play with.
C.You present your learner with two items and allow them to choose one, then record which one they chose.
D.None of these describe a free operant preference assessment.
What is B. You observe your learner in a natural setting and record what they choose to play with?
Laura the BCBA is working with her client on brushing teeth. She has broken down the complex skill of brushing teeth into smaller teachable steps to help her client learn this new skill. What teaching procedure is Laura implementing?
A. Task Analysis Chaining Procedure
B. Probing
C. Natural environment teaching
D. Generalization Procedure
What is A. Task Analysis Chaining Procedure?
Jill yells at loud volumes to get her mother’s attention. Her mother reinforces close approximations to low speaking volumes and tapping her to get her attention and ignores the loud volume screams. The process of reinforcing appropriate responses and withholding reinforcement for inappropriate responses is an example of:
A. Chaining
B. Differential reinforcement
C. Stimulus fading
D. Prompt fading
What is B. Differential Reinforcement?
The RBT recorded 18 instances of the child throwing items in the classroom. What type of continuous measurement procedure is the RBT implementing?
What is Frequency?
What is the purpose of a preference assessment?
A. To identify items and activities that are not reinforcing to an individual.
B. To identify why the individual engages in a particular behavior.
C. To identify which stimuli a person prefers
D. To assess skill deficits
What is C. To identify which stimuli a person prefers?
Josh is an RBT working with a client on hand washing. Handwashing is a complex skill that the clients BCBA has broken up into a sequence of small teachable steps. Josh’s BCBA instructs him that the procedure involves Josh prompting all but the last step in the behavior chain, which is performed by the learner, who then receives reinforcement for completing the chain. When the learner shows mastery in performing the last step, Josh will then complete all but the last 2 steps in the behavior chain and reinforcement is delivered. This sequence continues until the learner completes the entire chain independently. This describes what teaching procedure?
A. Forward chaining
B. Backward chaining
C. Behavior chain interruption strategy
D. Progressive chaining
What is B. Backward Chaining?
Your client continually engages in out of his seat behavior in the classroom. A desirable behavior with roaming around the classroom is being seated during class time. The teacher therefore could reduce the out-of-seat behavior by reinforcing the child for being seated. What differential reinforcement procedure is being illustrated
A. DRI (Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior)
B. DRA(Differential reinforcement of acceptable behavior)
C. DRO(Differential reinforcement of other behavior)
D. DRA (Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior)
What is A. DRI (Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior)
A client’s family asks you to babysit over the weekend while they go out of town. As an RBT, how should you respond to the parent’s request?
A. Agree to babysitting since you are familiar with the family
B. Apologize and inform the family that it is against the RBT ethics code
C. Inform them that you are busy this weekend but are free next weekend
D. All of the above could be appropriate responses
What is B. Apologize and inform the family that it is against the RBT ethics code?
The BCBA instructs you to measure the time between the end of one response to the beginning of the same response. What continuous measurement procedure is being implemented?
What is IRT?
Which of the following reasons for a particular behavior does not fall under the main functions of behavior?
A. Because you wanted to
B. Because it physically felt good
C. To avoid an unpleasant situation
D. To get someone to play with you
What is A. Because you wanted to?
Which of the following is an example of prompting least to most?
A. Model, Full Physical, Partial Physical, Gesture
B. Gesture, Model, Full Physical, Partial Physical
C. Gesture, Full Physical, Partial Physical
D. Gesture, Partial Physical, Full Physical
What is D. Gesture, Partial Physical, Full Physical
Your BCBA is using a differential reinforcement procedure to teach a replacement behavior for a client tantruming during independent seated work. The function of the behavior is escape. What replacement behavior would you be most appropriate to teach in this scenario?
A. On task behavior
B. Asking appropriately for access to toys
C. Requesting a break
D. Playing with a sensory toy
What is C. Requesting a break?
Which of the following illustrates maintaining client dignity?
A. Respecting cultural differences
B. Only sharing client information with stakeholders and your supervisors
C. Protecting your client’s privacy
D. All of the above
What is D. All of the above?