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If you are working with a client, and accidentally reinforce a behavior, what is the best course of action for you to take as an RBT?
John's parents really want him to enroll in school next year, but they are also considering homeschooling him for the first year or two. During your session, John's mom starts to ask you several questions about schooling and what you think they should do. What is the best response to John's mom's questions?
Jen works with a 6-year-old client three times a week. Whenever she is at the client's house, she will talk about the Las Vegas Golden Knights with her client's parents. Her client's parents know how much Jen likes the Knights, so they buy her a jersey the next time they go to the game. If Jen accepts the jersey, this would most likely represent a _____?
Ben is asked to assist his BCBA with a new client assessment. The two arrive at the client's house and start to set-up. As they are setting up, the BCBA is asking the client "what's your name?", "what's 2+2?", "Can you spell dog?" What most likely explains what your BCBA is doing?
Understanding the function of a behavior is the first step to properly treating the behavior. Why is it crucial to understand the function of each behavior?
You are teaching your client how to boil noodles for spaghetti. You prompt then to take out the pot, fill it with water, put it on the stove, turn the stove on, wait for the water to boil, put the noodles in, check the noodles to see if they are ready, and then you provide them praise as reinforcement for draining the noodles when done. What type of task chaining are you implementing?
RBTs are a major part of the service delivery team in ABA. What is the RBTs primary role in service delivery?
Extinction, along with reinforcement and punishment, is a behavior change principle. Of the following answer choices, what does not accurately represent extinction?
You are watching the Olympics and keeping track of how many medals the USA has won. Counting the medals is an example of what type of measurement?
As an RBT, you will be involved in task analysis and behavior chains. What is the distinction between the two?
Glen is running DTT with his client. Glen provides the SD, waits for a response from the learner, provides a prompt to the learner, provides feedback, and then pauses briefly before providing the next SD. What did Glen do wrong?
Blaine is sitting across from Tony. Blaine looks at Tony, says, "what is 2+4?" Tony says, "7." If Blaine is using discrete trial teaching, and wants to use a visual prompt, how should he respond?
Dan is working in a group home for adults. One of the residents of the group home wants to quit smoking. Dan gets together with his BCBA and they design a couple of different treatment options. One treatment option does not utilize punishment, while one does. The client wants to use the treatment option that uses punishment because they believe it will be more effective. What is the best course of action to take?
If you were to demonstrate a shaping procedure to a new RBT who asked for your help, what would the procedure look like?
Differential reinforcement is used to reduce behavior and teach skills in applied behavior analysis. Differential reinforcement can lead to ________?
Your BCBA designs a token economy to use during discrete trial training. Your BCBA wants to target sitting in a chair, responding in a timely manner, and working promptly. Your BCBA instructs you to provide tokens every 3-5 correct responses. What answer choice accurately describes the reinforcement schedule you will be using?
A skill acquisition plan contains several essential components. First, a skill must be identified. Then a goal is created to address the skill. Next, a measurement procedure is identified to use to record data. What is the next step in a skill acquisition plan?
Which of the following answer choices best describes behavior in observable and measurable terms?
Your client is overweight and is seemingly only motivated by food. Your client requested that you no longer use food as a reinforcer. After talking with your BCBA, what might be the best course of action?
Use the graph below. What is the average frequency of elopement for Chad per session?
Jim recorded the following description in his session notes: "I presented the workbook to the client. The client rolled out of his chair, and onto the floor. He put both of his hands over his ears, and screamed "no" What is Jim describing?
You just passed your RBT exam and are assigned your first case. Your client is a 13-year-old girl who engages in severe aggression towards others. Before you start the case, which of the following answer choices should be established?
How would you explain shaping to a parent who does not know anything about applied behavior analysis?
Reinforcement and punishment are both acceptable interventions, but reinforcement should always be used whenever possible instead of punishment. Which of the following answer choices describes a potential problem with punishment?
A skill acquisition plan is created to tech a client to use an ATM. The client is taught using a chaining procedure and is able to use their card at fake ATM machine at their house. What should the next step be in the plan?
A new BCBA is assigned to a case that you have worked on for almost a year now. During the first supervision meeting, the new BCBA suggests you change how you are delivering reinforcement, and corrects the way you provide corrective feedback to your client. As an RBT, what is the most appropriate way you should respond in this situation?
Your best friend is an RBT. She works at the same company as you, and works under the supervision of the same BCBA. You like your BCBA, but your friend doesn't agree with the feedback that the BCBA gives. When the BCBA gives her feedback, she ignores it, and doesn't implement it or improve her services. What has your friend failed to do?
Bobby works with a 19-year-old client who wants to learn to shop for his own groceries. The client is able to make a list and locate the items, but struggles using the self-checkout machines at the grocery store. The client is able to scan the items, place them in the bag, and run his credit card, but sometimes forgets what button to push before running the credit card, and how to complete the transaction. When Bobby works on this with his client, Bobby lets the client do the check-out process independently, and only teaches the steps the client doesn't know. What type of task chain teaching is this?
Our clients are protected by privacy laws and ethical codes. In order to remain within the ethical standards laid out by the BACB, who should you talk to about specific details of your cases?
Tina is a 4th grader in a general education classroom. Two months ago, Tina would get up from her seat several times during class for attention. A behavior plan that utilized extinction was put in place, and the behavior went away. Last week, Tina got up from her seat 10 times in one class. What is the most likely explanation for the behavior occurring again?
Money, tokens, and praise are all examples of what type of reinforcement?
Ben wanted to learn how to order his own meal at the local sushi restaurant. You worked with Ben on ordering a California roll from the menu on his own. Once Ben learned how to order the California roll, Ben started ordering chicken teriyaki, salmon rolls, and spicy tuna rolls from the menu. Ben's ordering is an example of __________?
Registered behavior technician should be prepared to collect data. Which of the following answer choices is not part of preparing for data collection?
You share a room with another RBT at the clinic where you work. The RBT asks you to discreetly take data on their client for 10 minutes to reduce reactivity. Every 60 seconds, you look up and check to see if the client is engaging in the target behavior. If the client is engaging in the target behavior, you mark it down as a response. What type of measurement are you implementing?
Last week, you decided to start a diet. You aren't allowed to eat donuts at all during the week. On Saturdays, you allow yourself two hot and fresh Krispy Kreme donuts. Saturday morning you wake up and drive to Krispy Kreme. The "hot and fresh" sign is on, so you walk in and buy yourself two donuts. What is the SD for hot and fresh donuts in this scenario?
You spent the last month recording frequency data on how often your client insults their siblings. Your frequency data is broken down by the number of insults per session. You took data for a total of 10 sessions. If your BCBA asked you to graph this data, where would you record the frequency of insults data?
While conducting forced-choice preference assessments, you start to notice that your client always chooses the item on the right-hand side. If you wanted to avoid this, which of the following answer choices would be most appropriate?
There are advantages to permanent product recording. Which of the following answer choices best describes permanent product recording?
Yesterday, you were reviewing session notes from the past week. You start to notice that you and the other RBT on the team are running many of the skill acquisition programs differently. What is the most appropriate action to take in this scenario?
John is working on functions, features, and categories with his client. John taught his client that an apple fit into the fruit category. John's client now says "fruit" when he sees an apple. John's client also says "fruit" when he sees grapes, bananas, and pears. What is John's client demonstrating?
RBTs have several roles in service delivery. Which of the following is NOT the role of an RBT.
Punishment can be either socially mediated or automatic. Which of the following is the best example of automatic punishment?
AJ is a non-verbal 5-year-old who receives services in a clinical setting. AJ's team uses errorless teaching with him when working on receptive color identification, and matching. AJ will now wait for a physical prompt before selecting a color when given an SD. What best describes AJ he relates to prompting?
Your BCBA designs a new behavior plan to target your client's aggression. You implement it for two weeks, and then start to think that the plan isn't effective. What should you do?
Every 6 months Miranda receives her favorite bottle of wine from her boss as a thank you gift for her hard work throughout the year. The last two times Miranda received this gift, her siblings drank the entire bottle when they visited for the weekend. The next time her siblings visited her, Miranda hid the bottle and served other wine. What type of intervention did Miranda implement?
Trash collection comes every Saturday in Sarah's neighborhood. When Sarah's husband leaves to play golf, he asks Sarah to put out the trash. Four hours later, Sarah hears the garbage truck coming down her street, so she rushes downstairs to put out the trash can. The sound of the garbage truck in relation to Sarah putting out the trash is a _______?
Which of the following is true about stimulus preference assessments?
You are assisting your supervisor with parent training. During the training meeting, the parent mentions that getting ready for school is a constant struggle. Your BCBA recommends that the parent implement an intervention that allows the client to watch TV for 20 minutes in the morning if they get dressed and ready for school in a timely manner. Implementing this intervention establishes a __________?
You are given a bag of items to bring to your client's home on your first day of service. The bag contains a variety of stimuli that is age appropriate for your client. If you wanted to conduct a preference assessment using all the stimuli at once, what method would be most appropriate?
Your BCBA has an assessment scheduled for next Tuesday. She asks you to assist her with part of the assessment. She wants you to conduct the initial indirect assessment. Which of the following answer choices would be most appropriate as an indirect assessment?
Functional communication training is commonly used in ABA to teach clients how to communicate with those around them. During FCT you will reinforce successive approximations of desired communication. What is this called?
Bonnie will always grab a cookie right before dinner. This leads to her refusing to eat her dinner, and engaging in escape-maintained behavior to get away from the table. Your BCBA creates an intervention that involves Bonnie's parents giving Bonnie two cookies after dinner if Bonnie does not eat a cookie before dinner. What type of intervention is this?
Your client engages in a repetitive behavior that looks like pinching his own arm. This has started to cause minor irritation to your client's skin. Your BCBA asks you to take partial interval data on your client's pinching. You are taking data across 6 30-second intervals. The following data was recorded for each interval: 1 instance, 8 instances, 0 instances, 5 instances, 9 instances, 11 instances. Using partial interval recording, how many responses would you record?
RBTs are required to receive monthly supervision from a supervisor that is an approved provider of supervision. If you work 100 hours in April, what is the minimum amount of supervision hours you would need to meet requirements?
You and your friends have a tradition where you set off hundreds of dollars of fireworks on the Fourth of July. Since you are preparing for your RBT exam, you want to measure one aspect of the fireworks. You are most interested in the length of time it takes to set off one firework after the last one went off. What would be the most appropriate measurement to use to track this?
Mary's session notes included the following passage: "When I arrived at session the client was eating breakfast. Mom asked him 3 times to pick up his trash and received no response. The fourth time she asked he screamed. The client was visibly frustrated at this point. I prompted the client to pick up his trash, and provided reinforcement upon completion." What should not be included in her session notes?
Dave is using a token economy to reinforce his client as his client completes math problems. Dave delivers a token every couple of problems that his client completes independently. What best describes this type of reinforcement?
Jen's husband golfs every Sunday morning with his buddies. Whenever he comes home he leaves his muddy shoes in the middle of the floor and Jen scolds him. Jen decides she will now give verbal attention to her husband when he puts his shoes in the closet, and will ignore him when he puts his shoes in the middle of the floor. What procedure is she using?
Jim's family goes out to eat quite often, but Jim is unable to order off the menu for himself. Viviana works with Jim at home on picking items on a menu, looking at prices, and communicating his selection to a waiter. The next time Jim goes to the restaurant, Jim orders a hamburger for himself. What did Jim exhibit at the restaurant?
Santa is making his list, and checking it twice. Once he checks it twice, he gives it to his Elves who prepare his sleigh with all the toys. Santa then checks to make sure all the toys are there. Santa is using what type of measurement?
Chris is allowed to stay at home by himself during summer vacation while his mom is at work. When his mom leaves in the morning, she gives Chris a list of items that she needs him to complete. What would be the best way for Chris' mom to measure whether or not Chris completed the entire list?
You spent the first month with your client managing behaviors and identifying reinforcers. This week, your BCBA wants you to identify what your client can and can't do in terms of skills. What procedure are you most likely going to implement?
Jennifer has four children. She cooks them all breakfast each morning. Jennifer's 5-year-old son, who you work with in the morning, will throw his food at the other siblings while at the breakfast table. After an assessment, your BCBA determined that the food throwing was maintained by attention. Your BCBA instructed you to praise your client, and provide him with attention, every 2 minutes that he doesn't throw food. What type of intervention are you implementing?
Bill and his mother in law do not get along. Bill's wife notices that whenever her mother plans a visit, Bill immediately books a golf outing with his friends. What would you hypothesize is the function of Bill's planning a golf trip behavior?
The last three sessions your client's dad reported to you that the client is going to bed at midnight and waking up at 4am. What course of action should you take as the RBT?
Grace provides her client a break when she earns 5 tokens. Grace also provides her client with two bonus tokens before DTT starts. The bonus tokens represent extra minutes on break. Grace utilizes a FR3 schedule and a response cost. What type of procedure is a response cost?
What measurement system in applied behavior analysis captures every instance that a behavior occurs?
Your BCBA requested that you film a portion of your session for her to see. You comply, and film 10 minutes of session using your iPhone. Later on, while at dinner with your friends, you are showing your friends pictures on your iPhone and the video starts to play. Your client is clearly visible in the video. Have you maintained client dignity in this scenario?
You are observing your client in a social setting on the weekends. Your BCBA asked you to record duration data for time spent talking to peers. For the first hour you recorded the following data: 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 8 minutes, 12 minutes. What percentage of the first hour did your client spend talking to peers?
Susie loves to draw with her sister after school. However, Susie's sister will sometimes try to draw on Susie's paper. Whenever Susie's sister tries to draw on Susie's paper, Susie will get up from the table and tell her "I am done drawing with you." Susie's sister is now drawing on Susie's paper less than before. Susie getting up the table and telling her sister she isn't going to draw with her is an example of _____________?
Fill in the blanks. Negative reinforcement involves ______ a stimulus which ______ behavior. Positive punishment involves _______ a stimulus which ______ behavior.
Jake is a 12-year-old boy who lives at home with his dad. Jake will often interrupt his dad's work calls at inappropriate times. It was determined that the function of this behavior was attention from Jake's dad. Your BCBA instructs you to give Jake attention every 3 minutes continuously while Jake's dad is on a work call. What type of intervention does this most likely represent?
Devin struggles starting and finishing games with peers. Your BCBA asked you to record data on peer play. It took Devin 6 minutes to start walking to the table when his peers asked him to play a game with them. Devin sat for 10 minutes, took 2 minutes in between turns, and then asked if he could be all done with the game 3 times. Which of the following answer choices represents the latency of Devin walking to the table?
RBTs are expected to stay in good standing with the BACB. This includes renewing their RBT license as required. Part of the renewal process is retaking the competency assessment. How often do RBTs need to retake the competency assessment?
If a functional behavior assessment indicates that the learner's behavior is occuring to access a tangible, how would you likely put the behavior on extinction?
In which of the following scenarios would duration be the most appropriate measurement?
Another name for the y-axis on a line graph is the _________?
Which of the following answer choices best represents discrimination training?
Micah is generally well-behaved, but prefers staying up late with his family. Whenever Micah's mom says "time to get ready for bed," Micah will start to cry, and beg to stay up late. What function most likely describes Micah's response to mom saying "time to get ready for bed?"
Your client will occasionally scream at the top of their lungs. There are no clear antecedents or consequences. Your BCBA is attempting to figure out what the function of the behavior might be. Which of the following would NOT be the function of this behavior?
Tommy will make noises with his mouth while sitting in math class. When Tommy makes noises, his teacher will tell him to quiet down. Tommy continues making noises. This week, the teacher decides she is no longer going to say anything to Tommy when he makes noises. Now, Tommy is making the noises louder and more frequently. Which of the following answer choices best describes this change in behavior?
As an RBT, you are required to be prepared for a session as described by the skill acquisition plan. Which of the following is NOT one way you should prepare for your session?
You work with a client four times a week for two hours each session. During your session, you take frequency data on your client's screaming behavior. Last week, your client screamed 4 times during session 1, 8 times during session 2, 6 times during session 3, and 10 times during session 4. What was the rate of screaming per hour for session 3?
Brynn is working on functional communication with her daughter. She wants her daughter to make requests appropriately. Brynn will play a song that she knows her daughter does not like. Only when Brynn's daughter says "please stop playing this song" will Brynna stop playing the song. Stopping the song is ____________?
Which of the following best represents an example of discontinuous measurement?
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- 18 years of age;
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| Year | First Time | Retakes |
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| 2017 | 20,445 | 3,208 |
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| 2019 | 30,578 | 5,605 |
| 2020 | 28,794 | 6,634 |
| 2021 | 43,452 | 10,793 |
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