RBT Study Terms

Functional Assessment

Determing the reason or function of the behavior.

Curriculum based evaluation

Child's academic abilities compared to the curriculum they are exposed to.

Social evaluation

Asses a child's social skills and interactions.

Preference assessment

Presenting a child with two toys & observing the child's choice.

Prompt and fading methods

High level assistance then reducing to the child can do it independently

Task analysis

Breaking down a skill into smaller units.

NET

Child led & not structured free environment

DTT (Discrete Trial Training)

RBT lead & more structured with table work.

Discrimination training

Teaching the child to discriminate or differentiate between different stimuli (colors)

Transfer of stimulus control

Shifting the control of a behavior from one stimulus to the other.

Differential reinforcement

Reinforcing the desired behavior (ex. Raising hand) and ignoring the undesirable behavior (ex shouting out)

Modifying antecedents

Changing the environment or context to prevent that behavior from occurring.

Topography

Having the BCBA show you what that targeted behavior looks like

Probing

Showing if the learner can complete the task or not

Reinforcement

A principle of behavior describing a response consequence functional relation in which the response is followed immediately by a stimulus change that results in similar responses occurring more often in the future

unconditioned reinforcers

(AKA primary reinforcers) Stimuli that do not require learning. (i.e. food, water, warmth, sleep, sexual stimulation)

Conditioned reinforcers

Stimuli that does require learning

Intermitente reinforcement

providing reinforcement some of the time for a behavior, then not.

Ex : client ties their shoe independently & you give praise, other times you wont.

Pairing

the process of taking a neutral stimulus and associating them with established reinforcers

SD, S-delta

A stimulus that signals the availability reinforcement is defined as a __---d a stimulus that signals the availability of reinforcement is fined as

stimulus generalization

Sam sees a green ball and says "green." Sam sees grass and says "green." Sam also sees dark green leaves on a tree and says "green." This is an example of:

response generalization

This occurs when the learner emits an unlearned response which is functionally equivalent to the learned response. An example includes teaching the learner to say "hi" and you now observe the client saying "hello" and "hey" which were not taught.

Shaping

Systematically and differentially reinforcing successive approximations to a terminal behavior is defined as:

Response cost

This is a program during which the learner earns tokens contingent on appropriate behavior, but also loses 2 tokens contingent on inappropriate behavior:

The three-term contingency refers to

Antecedent, response, consequence

Differential reinforcement

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

DRI (Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior)

A behavior thats incompatible

(Ex: Cameron is twirling a necklace and to get him to stop , you replace it with something not compatible to stop that behavior)

7 years

At a minimum, how many years do client data and records need to remain

secured at an organization?

Direct measurement

The RBT is collecting ABC data each time a client hits a peer or staff with open palm. What functional

assessment is being described in this scenario?

What is ABc data ?

the function of a behavior

Indirect observation

BCBA does an interview with the parents of their child (something you cant see/ non observational)

Fixed interval.

Providing reinforcement after every X number of minutes. (The Same each time / like getting paid every two weeks)

Fixed ratio

Providing reinforcement after every X number of occurrences of a target behavior. (paraprofessional gives her student a token every five pages they read independently.

variable interval

Providing reinforcement after a varying amount of time. (Example: a child asks for a snack, and her mother says, "wait"—sometimes, she has to wait for only 1 minute. Other times, she might need to wait 4 or 5 minutes.)

varible ratio

Providing reinforcement after a varying number of occurrences of a target behavior. ( ex: an RBT requires her client to complete 2-4 programs before earning a break in the playroom.)

schedules of reinforcement,

Variable= Changes

Fixed= The same

Interval= Time-based

Ratio= Based on a number of occurrences

Total Task Chaining

This is often used for skills that the learner has some competency demonstrating but has not mastered all of the steps in the chain.

Stimulus prompting

What is the term for the process of presenting a discriminative stimulus more frequently to increase the likelihood of a behavior?

behavior analysis, what is the purpose of a scatter plot?

To identify patterns of behavior in

different settings or times of the day

What does the term "maintenance" refer to in ABA?

The process of gradually reducing

prompts

Which term refers to the process of gradually increasing the difficulty of a task to promote skill acquisition?

Task analysis

What is the purpose of using prompting and fading procedures in skill acquisition?

To gradually introduce and then

remove prompts to promote

independent responding

In the context of ABA, what does the term "discrimination training" involve?

Teaching an individual to respond

to a particular stimulus but not to

similar stimuli

In behavior analysis, what does the term "shaping" refer to?

Reinforcing successive

approximations to a target behavior

Rate

the total count of a behavior per unit of time

Frequency

Total count of a behavior

developmental assessment

arranges skills in the order in which they are typically learned in a child's life, but not necessarily in a "logical" order.

Pivotal Response Training

targets critical areas that improve many different individual responses, emphasizes child's choice, takes place in the natural environment, emphasizes heavily the family's involvement, and multiple cues are used to evoke behavior.

token economy

a system where conditioned reinforcers (tokens) are earned by engaging in specific behavior(s). These are then exchanged periodically for backup reinforcers from a store.

Task chaining analysis

A complex behavior is broken down into easy steps, with each step's completion serving as the reinforcer for the previous step and SD for the next step. (Like a recipe)

Incidental Teaching

a teaching method where the therapist waits for the child to initiate a response with an item of interest

: A behavior-altering effect

increases the momentary probability of a behavior.

discriminative stimulus

is a stimulus that correlates with a change in the availability of a reinforcer.

Reinforcers that get their reinforcing properties by combining with another reinforcer are referred to as

conditioned reinforcement

DRO

a time-based DR procedure.

Data

is factual information that is utilized as a foundation for reasoning, discussion, or calculation.

What does a graph's trend represent?

The vertical representation of the average data values

Response prompts

include hand over hand, gestural, and partial physical.

The accuracy of your data will be checked during an observation by your BCBA/BCaBA supervisor. _________________ check is what it's called.

Inter-observer agreement

In what type of assessment would you record ABC data?

Descriptive Assessment

What is a baseline measure?

A measurement of the behavior or skill before implementation of the intervention

Jaycee has a goal to independently mand for preferred items. Which of the following would be the most precise mastery criteria for this goal?

80% independent across 3 consecutive sessions

A continuous schedule of reinforcemen

you reinforce every occurrence of the target behavior.

noncontingent reinforcement

occurs when a reinforcer is presented regardless of whether the target behavior is demonstrated or not.

Total task chaining

you allow the learner to go through the steps and only provide prompting on the steps they need support with

What is an antecedent intervention

A strategy for preventing target behaviors