RBT Exam

ABC

: antecedent – behavior – consequence. Also known as the 3-term contingency

Abolishing Operation

: can decrease reinforcer effectiveness. Usually associated with satiation

Acquisition

: A target that is in the process of being taught. This behavior is not yet a known skil

Antecedent Interventions

: recognizing environmental factors that can attribute to problematic behavior and making changes necessary to promote appropriate behavior and reduce possible triggers for maladaptive.

Antecedent

: events that occur before a behavior

Backward Chaining:

Teaching skill steps one at a time from the last step to the first and prompting all steps before the step being taught. Reinforcement after teaching step and at the end of the task

Behavior Intervention Plan:

once the function of behavior has been determined, BIPs are used for antecedent strategies, responding to maladaptive behavior, teaching replacement behavior and what interventions to use, both verbal and physical.

Behavior Skills Training:

procedure consisting of instruction, modeling, behavioral rehearsal, and feedback that is used to teach new behaviors or skills. Instructions, model, rehearsal, feedback

Behavior 4 functions

: anything a person does that can be observed and measured. 4 Functions: 1. Automatic/sensory: providing self-stimulation and is automatically reinforced; 2. Escape: avoiding or escaping a demand or undesirable task; 3. Attention: can be socially mediated and seeks attention in any way from others; 4. Access: tangible, wanting a preferred item

Chaining

: Used to teach multi-step skills in which the steps involved are defined through task analysis. Each separate step is taught to link together the total “chain.” Can be done either by backward, forward, or total task analyses.

Consequence

: something that follows a behavior

Continuous Measurement:

Continuous reinforcement:

the target behavior occurs and is reinforced after every occurrence

Deprivation

: not having something often enough and in return increases the effectiveness of it when used as a reinforcer.

Continuous measurement

discontinuous measurement procedures

, which record the occurrence vs non-occurrence of a behavior at a certain moment in time or across an interval of time

Unconditioned reinforcers

Conditioned reinforcers