RBT Assessment & Exam

Receptive Prompting Hierarchy

Independant

Indirect-verbal

Gesture

Verbal

Model

Partial physical

Full physical

Expressive Prompting Hierarchy

Independant

Time Delay

Open-ended

Removed Model

Model

How do reinforcers stay effective?

DISC

Deprivation

Immediacy

Size

Contingency

Deprivation

limited access increases effectiveness

Immediacy

Limited time between response and reinforcer

Size

Too much of any reinforcer may result in satiation; not enough may not impact the response

Functions of Behaviors

Sensory

Escape/Avoid

Attention

Tangables

Priming

Antecedent Strategy- Providing clear expectations

Premack

Antecedent Strategy- First, Then

Start Direction

Antecedent Strategy- Teaches what to do instead of what not to do

Choices

Antecedent Strategy- do this or that? In 10 min or 5 min?

Environmental arrangements

Antecedent Strategy- change the room to best fit session

Make it fun

Antecedent Strategy- Use excited, playful affect

Ensure Safety

Reactive Strategy- Block, move items

Withhold reinforcement (Extinction)

Reactive Strategy- dont give what they want unless comepleted

Prompt Coping Stratagies

Reactive Strategy- take deep breaths, squeeze a pillow, etc

Follow Through with Demand

Reactive Strategy- don’t back down

Prompt Replace Behavior

Reactive Strategy- what to do instead

Reinforce Approximations

Reactive Strategy- Attempts

Contingent Reinforcement

only given if task is completed

Natural Reinforcement

Reinforcement is directly related to the task

Differential Reinforcement of Other Behaviors (DRO)

when that behavior is not happening, you deliver reinforcement

Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behaviors (DRI)

Target a behavior and a second behavior that can’t happen at the same time. When the second behavior happens, you reinforce that behavior

Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behaviors (DRA)

When the replacement behavior happens, reinforce that behavior

Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates of Behaviors (DRL)

When the behavior occurs less than the target criteria, you reinforce that behavior