The RBT Competency Assessment

1. Turning pages (do this, requesting to turn pages, "turn the page"), 2. Animal sounds, 3. Identifying animals, 4. Body parts, 5. counting; honorable mentions: "Find the...", "Touch the...," colors, "Put the book away," "What's your favorite animal?," Echoics like "Say moo"

Name 5 things you might teach if your learner was engaging with a farm animal book.

Reinforcing successive approximations towards a target behavior; provide reinforcement for each step closer (each approximation) the learner makes towards the goal

Define shaping

Forward

You are working with your learner to brush their teeth. You are teaching them how to grab their toothbrush by gesturing towards the toothbrush on the counter and then errorlessly prompting them through all the rest of the steps using a full or partial physical. What type of chaining is this (forward or backward)?

Provide a prompt immediately following the incorrect response and fade the prompts until they respond independently to "Match blue."

You and your BCBA are roleplaying a DTT session with the SD, "Match blue." They tell you "This time I'm going to get it wrong when you tell me to match blue. Show me a stimulus control transfer." What do they want you to do?

1. Have materials ready, 2. use the correct SD and follow the program procedure carefully, and 3. utilize the correct amount of reinforcement

What are 3 things you need to do in order to successfully pass the DTT part of the competency?

Frequency

Your BCBA tells you they are going to have you watch a video and count how many times the child in the video says, "Oh my gosh." What type of measurement are they going to have you use?

Whole Interval Recording

Your BCBA wants you to record data on if the lady in a video lays down for the entire 1 minute interval. What type of discontinuous measurement is this?

Shaping

You are working with your learner to say, "Apple." You provide some reinforcement when they say "ahh," a little more reinforcement when they say "Ahhpp" because it's more progress than saying "Ahhh." What procedure are you using?

VR2

Your BCBA wants you to deliver tokens for about every 1-3 correct responses given during a DTT session with a patient. What schedule do they want you to use?

Token Economy

reinforcement system with 3 components

1. Target behaviors

2. Generalized conditioned reinforcers (tokens or points)

3. Backup reinforcers

Set a timer, use a first then ("First let's go potty and then we can come back outside"), giving a verbal warning/priming ("We're going to go potty here soon"), behavioral momentum ["Hey buddy, come here" ("Wow, nice listening!"), "High five" ("You're a rockstar!"), "Skip to the door." ("Awesome!"), "Time to go potty"]

Your BCBA is supervising you during a shadow session and asks you to transition the learner inside to use the restroom in the next 10 minutes. What is an antecedent strategy you might use to do this?

Possible examples might be: using an appropriate tone of voice, monitoring your body language, getting down on their level, closing the door for diaper changes or while they are engaged in a behavior, not talking about the patient in front of them, not denying food/water

Name one example of how to maintain client dignity.

RBTs must be supervised a minimum of 5% of their direct therapy hours a month and receive 2 face-to-face contacts a month

What are the monthly supervision requirements for RBTs?

Only praise when they touch the cracker ("Nice, that's the cracker!") and if they don't, provide a prompt to touch the cracker.

Your BCBA wants you to roleplay a DTT session with them by having you lay out 3 cards and giving the SD, "Touch cracker." How can you show them Discrimination Training?

Momentary Time Sampling

Your BCBA is going to have you watch a video to record only if the behavior is happening at the end of the interval. What type of measurement are they checking for competency?

-You will need 4 items (items A, B, C, D)

-You will offer two items at a time

-You will say something like, "Choose one" or "Pick one"

-They can play with the item for around 30 seconds to a minute

-When they choose an item, you mark which item they chose on your data sheet

-You determine which is the highest and lowest preferred by counting the total amount of times each item was picked. The highest preferred is the item that was chosen the most

The BCBA asks you to show them how to do a Paired Choice preference assessment. How will you set this up:

-How many items will you need?

-How many items at a time will you offer?

-What will you say to encourage them to pick an item?

-How long do they get to play with the item they chose?

-When they choose an item, how will you record data?

-How do we determine which is the patient's highest and lowest preferred?

A-RBT tells them to "Clean up"

B-Screams and throws blocks

C-RBT prompts a mand for more time to play

During a shadow session, the BCBA asks you to record ABC data on one behavior you see. This is what you see while the patient is playing in the gym:

They are playing blocks when the RBT tells them to "Clean up." The patient screams and throws the blocks. The RBT prompts a mand for more time to play. What are the ABCs of this scenario?

-You will gather 4-6 items

-You need a timer to time the duration of engagement with each item

-They are free to engage with any item for however long they wish

-When they choose an item, you will time how long they engage with each item and then record that on your data sheet

-The highest preferred item will be the item they play with the longest and the lowest preferred will be what they engage with for the shortest duration

The BCBA wants you to show them how to do a Free Operant preference Assessment.

-How many items will you need to gather?

-What other materials do you need for data collection purposes?

-How long do they get to engage with each item?

-When they choose an item, how will you record data?

-How will you determine what is their highest and lowest preferred item(s)?

Shaping

What is the term for reinforcing successive approximations towards a target behavior?

Least amount of prompting (a gesture or model)

You are using the following task analysis to roleplay teaching your BCBA how to wipe a table:

1. Get a paper towel (mastered)

2. Walk to table (mastered)

3. Wipe table (target)

4. Walk to trash (errorless prompt)

5. Throw away paper towel (errorless prompt)

What kind of prompting will you use for the target step (wipe table)?

The most amount of prompting required (usually a partial or full physical)

You are using the following task analysis to roleplay teaching your BCBA how to wipe a table:

1. Get a paper towel (mastered)

2. Walk to table (mastered)

3. Wipe table (target)

4. Walk to trash (errorless prompt)

5. Throw away paper towel (errorless prompt)

What kind of prompting will you use for the steps requiring an errorless prompt?

Duration

You are to watch a video and time how long the person in the video takes to wash their hands. What type of measurement will you use?

Maintaining professional boundaries

No babysitting, no gift giving or receiving to and from clients, no romantic relationships with supervisors, and no social media contact with patients/their families all describe examples of what?

Seek clinical direction from the BCBA

Your patient engages in a novel (new) behavior during the session that you've never seen before. What do you do?

Shaping

You are working with your patient to eat a new food. You provide some reinforcement when they look at the new food, more reinforcement when they smell the food, even more when they lick the food, and lots of praise when they take one small bite. What type of procedure are you using?

Priming ("We can't go outside right now because they're cutting the grass"), Offer choices ("Should we play in the gym while we wait or play a game?"), Set a timer ("Let's check and see if they're finished in 10 minutes."), or maybe offer them a choice to fly the kite somewhere else temporarily.

Your patient has a hard time with accepting no. They want to go outside and fly their new kite, but you have just seen that the lawn people are here and we cannot go outside right now. What antecedent strategy might you use to prevent behavior?

Between 3-5 instructions

How many SDs per token might you give if your learner is on a VR4 schedule?

Always correct 2 instructions per token

After how many correct instructions will you provide a token for a learner who is on a FR2 schedule of reinforcement?

Pick them up and carry them out of the street. Fill out crisis management paperwork as soon after the incident as possible.

Your patient runs out in to the middle of the busy street and flops while a car is coming. What do you do according to crisis protocols?

Represent the SD and nudge the patient's elbow or hand towards the dog picture

The teaching instructions for the target, "Find dog" are as follows:

SD: "Find dog"

Procedure: lay out 3 pictures and present the SD

Prompting Procedure: If the patient incorrectly touches another picture, represent the SD while utilizing most to least prompting starting with a partial physical.

How will you prompt following an incorrect response?