RBT Practice Exam - 85 questions

What is a multiple relationship?

Working with two clients at the same time

Working with two different clients

Having two different relationships with one client

Working with a client in the community and clinic settings

C: Having two different relationships with one client

Which of the following is part of the RBT ethical code?

Be compassionate for the less fortunate

Be truthful and honest

Resolve all issues formally

If there is an issue, file a formal complaint immediately

B: Be truthful and honest

A client gives you a bottle opener from their birthday party. What does the ethical code say you should do?

Refuse the gift and send a letter home that forbids future gifting.

Accept and use in front of them to make them feel good.

Politely decline and explain to them/ their parents the nature of your professional relationship.

Throw it away immediately.

C: Politely decline and explain to them/parents their nature of your professional relationship

What should you do if you are arrested for a minor marijuana charge?

Report to BACB within 24 hours

Do not report; this is not a fireable offense and your credential with remain in tact

Provide 2 weeks notice to employer

Report to BACB within 30 days

D: Report to BCBA within 30 days

Which is considered confidential information per the BACB ethical code?

Information about a client that can be found online

Information about the people that RBT works with

Written records

Electronic records

All of the above

All of the above

If you are not providing direct ABA services and are having a fun Friday, what should you do?

Do not make reference to, display, or otherwise use your RBT

Explain to parents that ABA was being performed under their RBT credential

Display your RBT certificate when requested

Bill since you have the RBT credential

Do not make reference to, display, or otherwise use your RBT

Your supervisor requests that you work with a new client who has behaviors you have never encountered. What should you do?

Refuse as you lack experience in this type of behavior

Request more training from supervising BCBA

Accept since you are contractually obligated

Politely decline

Request more training from supervising BCBA

Which antecedent increases or decreases the value of a consequence?

Abolishing Operation

Establishing Operation

Motivating Operation

SD

Motivating operations

How long the behavior occurs refers to what measurement dimension?

Duration

Momentary time sampling

Latency

Tally/ Count

Duration

John is recording data on aggression by counting the number of scratches left on his body after a session. What kind of measurement is this?

Duration

Time sampling

Continuous measurement

Permanent product

Permanent product

Escape, attention, tangible, sensory are examples of:

Functions of behavior

Teaching strategies

Types of prompts

Dimensions of ABA

Functions of behavior

Determined by ABC Data

Prompt level

Duration

Function

Inter-response time

Function

The breakdown of a task into its individual components and steps.

Discrete trial

Forward chaining

Stimulus control

Task analysis

Task analysis

Signals that reinforcement is available.

Sd

Sdelta

SR-

VR-3

SD

Examples are food, water, sex, sleep.

Secondary reinforcement

Primary reinforcement

Sd

Consequence of behavior

Primary reinforcment

Examples are money and tokens.

Primary reinforcement

Secondary reinforcement

Economic reinforcement

Fiscal considerations

Secondary reinforcement

Increases the future likelihood of behavior.

Punishment

Motivation

Rewards

Reinforcement

Reinforcment

Adding a stimulus which increases the future likelihood of behavior.

Positive reinforcement

Positive punishment

Negative reinforcement

Negative punishment

Positive Reinforcement

Verbal behavior with point-to-point correspondence.

Mand

Tact

Intraverbal

Echoic

Echotic

Removing a stimulus which decreases the future likelihood of behavior.

Positive reinforcement

Positive punishment

Negative reinforcement

Negative punishment

Negative punishment

Reinforcement is delivered on the average of every 2 minutes in which the behaviors occur.

FI-2

FR-2

VI-2

VR-2

VI-2

What are the four functions of behavior?

Toys, Edibles, Praise, and Aversion

Sensory, Escape, Attention, and Tangibles

Sensory Overload, Non-Compliance, Aggression, and Compliance

Automatic Sensory, Automatic Positive, and Social Negative

Sensory, Escape, Attention, Tangibles

Verbal behavior of requesting

Mand

Tact

Echoic

Intraverbal

Mand

Removing a stimulus which decreases the future likelihood of behavior.

Positive reinforcement

Positive punishment

Negative reinforcement

Negative punishment

Negative Punishment

Tilda finished her session after being supervised by her BCBA. During the session, she recorded data on a paper data collection sheet. While she was cleaning up, she spilled a cup of coffee all over her data sheet, making it completely illegible.

What should Tilda do? Her company has strict policies regarding staff who fail to properly enter data at the end of a shift!

Tilda should not record any data for that session - that would be unethical. No further action (such as contacting her supervisor) is necessary - if a supervisor sees no data collected, they automatically know that coffee was spilled on the paper data sheet due to their experience with coffee and paper in the past.

Tilda should try her best to estimate the client's performance on each skill target. After all, it wasn't that long ago - she can probably remember everything alright.

Tilda should notify her supervisor of the mishap and try to prevent such a fiasco in the future - perhaps by using mechanical or digital data collection systems.

Tilda should submit the coffee-stained paper data sheet to her supervisor during the next supervision session and resign.

Tilda should notify her supervisor of the mishap and try to prevent such a fiasco in the future - perhaps by using mechanical or digital data collection systems.

What occurs before the behavior?

Antecedent

Response

Behavior

Consequence

Antecedent

Example, "do this."

Sd

DRA

Sdelta

SR+

SD- discriminative stimulus

What occurs after the behavior?

Antecedent

Behavior

Response

Consequence

Consequence

Tammy is a BCBA working at a behavior analysis clinic. She is creating a flyer for an exciting workshop event at her clinic, and wants to share it with all the families currently receiving behavior analysis services, so she mass emails (cc - carbon copy) the entire roster of active patients at her facilty.

What, if anything, is wrong with this situation?

This is fine and permitted by the BACB, within reason

CC (carbon copy) reveals the names of people who are receiving behavior analysis services without getting their consent first, which violates HIPPA, as revealing the name of someone receiving mental health services is protected healthcare information.

Generally speaking, behavior analysis is not a "medical" field and therefore not required to respect privacy as federally mandated by the HIPAA act. However, this type of behavior is considered somewhat "unclassy."

Sam should avoid sending out mass emails, as it's very tacky

CC (carbon copy) reveals the names of people who are receiving behavior analysis services without getting their consent first, which violates HIPPA, as revealing the name of someone receiving mental health services is protected healthcare information.

Tim, a BCBA, always writes his procedures in clear and concise terms so that his staff (and families, too!) can easily understand what is meant by his procedures. He provides complete and full definitions, and avoids using overly specific jargon when the person(s) who will be reading or implementing his procedures are laypersons.Of the 7 Dimensions of ABA (as originally described by Baer, D., Wolf, M., & Risley, R., 1968), which of the following does the above most closely describe?

Applied

Behavioral

Technological

Conceptually Systematic

Technological

Start with most intrusive prompt.

Forward chaining

Backwards chaining

Most to least prompting

Least to most prompting

Most to least prompting

Reinforcing gradual changes in behavior.

Chaining

Shaping

Prompting

Reinforcing

Shaping

Teaching a task analysis by teaching the first step first.

Forward chaining

Prompting

Backwards chaining

Fading

Forward chaining

Start with least intrusive prompt.

Forward chaining

Backwards chaining

Least to most prompting

Most to least prompting

Least to most prompting

Teaching the entire task analysis at once

Total task presentation

Single task presentation

Discriminative stimulus

Forward chaining

Total task presentation

Reinforcement provided on the average of every 5 correct responses

VR-5

VI-5

FR-5

FI-5

VR-5

Reinforcement provided every 2 minutes in which behavior occurred.

VI-2

VR-2

FR-2

FI-2

FI-2

Reinforcement provided every 10 minutes that behavior occurs.

FI-10

FR-10

VI-10

VR-10

FI-10

MSWO:

Multiple stimulus with replacement

Multiple stimulus without replacement

Multiple stimulus with operates

Multiple settings with replacement

Multiple stimulus without replacement

FBA:

free behavior assessment

functional behavior assessment

function of behavior analysis

Freudian behavior assessment

functional behavior assessment

You provide reinforcement to your client for clapping, and ignore him when he hits.

Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior

Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior

Differential reinforcement for lower rats of behavior

Differential reinforcement of other behavior

Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior

Reinforcing progressively lower response rates.

Differential reinforcement of higher rates of behavior

Differential reinforcement of lower rates of behavior

Differential reinforcement of other behavior

Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior

Differential reinforcement of lower rates of behavior

Reinforcing progressively increasing rates of behavior.

Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior

Differential reinforcement of other behavior

Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior

Differential reinforcement of higher rates of behavior

Differential reinforcement of higher rates of behavior

Which of the following examples below is an example of a VARIABLE RATIO schedule of reinforcement?

Grandma loves the slots in Vegas! On average, every 30th pull of the slot machine results in a small cash payout. Sometimes the payout occurs on the 15th pull... sometimes on the 45th... but, on average, payout occurs every 30 pulls on the slot machine. Grandma can't wait to hit the jackpot someday!

Every time Billy screams, his mother punishes him by taking away his toys for the night

Tim gives his students a treat from the candy jar every time they get a 100% on their tests

Individuals who pass the RBT exam are given a $50 bonus on their next pay check at ACME ABA company.

Grandma loves the slots in Vegas! On average, every 30th pull of the slot machine results in a small cash payout. Sometimes the payout occurs on the 15th pull... sometimes on the 45th... but, on average, payout occurs every 30 pulls on the slot machine. Grandma can't wait to hit the jackpot someday!

Withholding reinforcement for a target response

Variable reinforcement

Extinction

Punishment

Reinforcement schedule

Extinction

Sometimes, behavior analysts will break down a complex chain of behaviors into smaller discrete steps to facilitate teaching.

The learner will then be taught to complete the steps in their logical order, with the completion of the previous step serving as the reinforcer for that step and the discriminative stimulus (SD) for the next step. Finally, the last step in the chain (terminal step) serves as the reinforcer for the whole chain.

What is this called?

Task Analysis

Task Step

Task Endurance

Task Sequence

A Recipe

Task analysis

An experienced RBT supervises other RBTs at work, due to a shortage of board certified assistant (BCaBA) and board-certified behavior analysts (BCBAs).

What, if any, ethical consideration exists here?

As long as the RBT is being supervised by a behavior analyst, there is no ethical concern here.

There is no ethical concern here - this is standard practice, as mandated by the BACB.

The RBT needs to be supervised directly by a certified behavior analyst (BCaBA, BCBA, BCBA-D). The type of supervision and quantity are directly specified by the board.

As long as the RBT practices lots of the free quizzes on this awesome website, they should be fine.

The RBT needs to be supervised directly by a certified behavior analyst (BCaBA, BCBA, BCBA-D). The type of supervision and quantity are directly specified by the board.

You're about to start a session with a client. What do you need to do to be sure you're ready to have a successful session (at the very minimum)?

You can probably just wing it. You're pretty good at this, after all, and your memory is amazing.

A cup of coffee is all anyone really needs - if anyone tells you elsewise, they're a liar or a tea-drinker.

You should know the responses and their response definitions that you will be measuring during your session. In addition, make sure you're prepared to take data - clickers, notepaper and a pencil, whatever you need, make sure you have it!

Before the session, conduct a functional behavioral assessment and an informal preference assessment. Following that, draft a treatment plan while the client plays with an iPad.

You should know the responses and their response definitions that you will be measuring during your session. In addition, make sure you're prepared to take data - clickers, notepaper and a pencil, whatever you need, make sure you have it!

What happens before/ immediately precedes behavior in data collection is known as the...

Antecedent

Motivation Operation

Preceding Stimulus

Setting event

Antecedent

How long a tantrum behavior occurs, how long it takes a client to do homework; what type of data collection is this?

Frequency

Duration

Interresponse time

Latency

Duration

Time between two successive responses.

Frequency

Duration

Intensity

Inter-response time

Inter-response time

Record a + if behavior occurred at any point during the interval.

Momentary Time Sampling

Duration per Occurrence

Partial Interval Recording

Partial Interview Recording

Partial Interval Recording

When attempting to assess the function of a client's behavior, what is often considered the "gold standard" for experimentally identifying function?

Ask yourself, "What are the A-B-C's for this behavior?" Sketch it out, and write a functional response definition for the behavior and proceed with treatment. Trust your intuition!

Watch the behavior of interest occur in the natural environment; that should be sufficient.

Free operant or multiple stimulus assessment

Conducting an analog or naturalistic functional analysis is usually considered the best way to identify function

Conducting an analog or naturalistic functional analysis is usually considered the best way to identify function

Select the best definition for differential reinforcement, from the choices below:

A stimulus that, when presented following a behavior, causes an overall INCREASE in that behavior over time.

Providing greater reinforcement for better approximations of a target behavior, and placing other behaviors on extinction or on a less desirable reinforcement schedule.

A stimulus that signals the availability of a reinforcer.

A stimulus that, when presented following a behavior, causes an overall DECREASE in that behavior over time.

Providing greater reinforcement for better approximations of a target behavior, and placing other behaviors on extinction or on a less desirable reinforcement schedule.

A little boy is playing with his toys in his room. Holding one of his stuffed animal dolls, he looks at it and says "Zebra!"

Which elementary verbal operant does this scenario most likely describe?

Intraverbal

Echoic

Autoclitic

Tact

Tact

Teaching communication to replace problem behaviors.

Functional communication training

FIT

Differential reinforcement of other behaviors

FR-3 schedule of reinforcement

Functional communication training

What occurs when reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is no longer provided, resulting in the decrease of frequency of the behavior in the future?

Endangerment

Extinction

Pivotal Response Training

Negative reinforcement

Extinction

For a child who is always picked up when they cry, not picking them up in the future would be an example of...?

Escape

Elopement

Extinction

Negative reinforcement

Extinction

Which type of extinction procedure has the individual simply giving no outward signs or response to a behavior, such as eye contact, verbal/ physical responses?

Planned ignoring

Escape extinction

Functional communication training

Positive reinforcement

Planned ignoring

A child is taught to raise their hand as an alternative to yelling out in class. Which type of differential reinforcement does this example represent?

Differential reinforcement of incompatible behaviors

Differential reinforcement of lower rates of behavior

Differential reinforcement of alternative behaviors

Differential reinforcement of other behaviors

Differential reinforcement of alternative behaviors

Classical conditioning is also commonly referred to as...

Reflex Reaction

Operant Conditioning

Learning

Pavolovian Conditioning

Pavolovian Conditioning

For a child who is scratching his skin, extinction can be used by the child wearing a glove, preventing the contact of the sensory stimulation that comes from scratching the skin. Which type of extinction does this represent?

Sensory extinction

Escape extinction

Attention extinction

Functional communication training

Sensory extinction

A neutral stimulus can become conditioned by pairing this stimulus with an unconditioned or previously conditioned stimulus. True or false?

True

The sign being illuminated at your favorite restaurnt says "open." The open sign signals he availability of stopping, as it indicates that the behavior of going into the restaurant will be reinforced by the delivery of food. What type of stimulus is this an example of?

Sd

Sdelta

Ds

SR+

SD

This follows a response and increases the probability of that response occurring again in the future.

Punishment

Reinforcement

Consequence

Stimulus

Reinforcement

Adding something that will motivate a person to increase the likelihood that they will engage in the target behavior again. What type of reinforcement is this?

Positive

Negative

Continuous

Discontinuous

Discontinuous

Food is an example of what type of reinforcer?

Unconditioned

Conditioned

Negative

Positive

Unconditioned

Money is an example of what type of reinforcement?

Negative

Unconditioned

Secondary

Primary

Secondary

Extremely bright lights, freezing temperature, electric shock are all examples of which punisher?

Conditioned

Unknown

Unconditioned

Secondary

Unconditioned

Satiation is a term that refers to what?

An abolishing operation (value decrease) of a reinforcer due to an organism being over-exposed to that stimulus

An establishing operation (value increase) of a reinforcer due to it's scarcity

A stimulus that is aversive or non-preferred

To be at capacity or over-supplied

An abolishing operation (value decrease) of a reinforcer due to an organism being over-exposed to that stimulus

Which of the following is true about cumulative records?

Trends in a cumulative record can include a positive (increasing) and negative (decreasing) slope

A combination of all frequency scores into a single "master score index" used in statistical analysis to compare frequency charts for different types of radical behaviors

Data never decreases in a cumulative record; an increasing slope indicates occurrence of the target behavior, while a flat slope indicates periods of no occurrences of the target behavior

Data is recorded once per session; downward slopes indicate a decreasing trend

Data never decreases in a cumulative record; an increasing slope indicates occurrence of the target behavior, while a flat slope indicates periods of no occurrences of the target behavior

Removing something that increases the future likelihood of behavior is called...

Negative punishment

Negative reinforcement

Positive punishment

Positive reinforcement

Negative reinforcement

Present 5 easy/ mastered tasks in quick succession immediately before presenting an acquisition target.

Behavior modification

Behavior momentum

Behavior inertia

Functional community training.

Behavior Momentum

Is exaggerating covered by the RBT ethical code?

Yes

No

No

How much time needs to pass before entering a relationship with a client or supervisor?

2 years after the working relationship ends

6 months after the working relationship ends

1 month, as long as a personal relationship is established

Never

2 years after the working relationship ends

When working with a client, whose preferences should take priority?

Parent

Teacher

BCBA

Client

Client

you become aware that a client's legal rights are being violated, which of the following actions should you take?

Contact relevant authorities

Follow organization's policies

Document efforts to address the matter

Consult with your supervisor

All of the above

All of the above

If you become aware that a client's legal rights are being violated, which of the following actions should you take?

Contact relevant authorities

Follow organization's policies

Document efforts to address the matter

Consult with your supervisor

All of the above

All of the above

Sally is an RBT working with a client named Jim. Jim tends to scream and bite his arm forcefully when presented with his token board, and sometimes when Sally opens up her laptop. Sally almost never opens up her laptop unless she's about to ask Jim to do some of his table work activities.

What do you think the most likely function of Jim's behavior is?

Sensory Overload

Escape from demands presented by others (Socially Mediated Negative Reinforcement)

Access to Tangibles, such as preferred Items & activities (Socially Mediated Positive Reinforcement)

Escape from a painful stimulus, such as a headache! (Automatically Mediated Negative Reinforcement)

Escape from demands presented by others (Socially Mediated Negative Reinforcement)

You are asked to collect data on aggression. Every time your learner agresses, you click the tally counter. What are you measuring?

Duration

Duration per occurrence

Latency

Frequency

Frequency

You are recording the time it takes from the presentation of the demand (Sd) to the first instance of behavior. What are you measuring?

Frequency

Duration

Latency

Inter-response time

Latency

For every third correct response, you deliver a preferred edible. What reinforcement schedule is this?

FR-3

FI-3

VR-3

VI-3

FR-3

Which of the following is the LEAST unethical decision?

An RBT working with a family on community skills goals in a shopping mall is offered a gift by the family once they conclude their shopping trip. The RBT accepts the gift.

A family is going on vacation and wants to bring their RBT along to help their child work on goals while on vacation. The RBT can't afford the trip, so the family decides to pay for their trip in order to bring them along. The RBT agrees, as this is a valid business expense.

A small child, who is the client of an RBT, offers the RBT a hand-made card, made from construction paper and way too much glitter, as a gift. The RBT readily accepts with a big smile on his face.

A mechanic, who is the father of a child receiving behavioral services from an RBT, notices the RBT is having trouble starting her car. He offers to help her fix it at his shop for free. The RBT is grateful, and accepts the gift from the client's father.

A small child, who is the client of an RBT, offers the RBT a hand-made card, made from construction paper and way too much glitter, as a gift. The RBT readily accepts with a big smile on his face.

Response definitions, sometimes also referred to as operational definitions or behavior definitions, refer to a ...

Objective, clear, concise, and complete description of a behavior of interest

Use laymans terms to explain to parents what type of function the behavior most likely possesses

Describe only the function of the behavior of interest

Provide a subjective, comfortable description of the behavior of interest

Objective, clear, concise, and complete description of a behavior of interest