RBT Practice Exam

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

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

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.

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

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 credentia

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

Which antecedent increases or decreases the value of a consequence?
Abolishing Operation
Establishing Operation
Motivating Operation
SD

How long the behavior occurs refers to what measurement dimension?
Duration
Momentary time sampling
Latency
Tally/ Count

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

Escape, attention, tangible, sensory are examples of:
Functions of behavior
Teaching strategies
Types of prompts
Dimensions of ABA

Determined by ABC Data
Prompt level
Duration
Function
Inter-response time

The breakdown of a task into its individual components and steps.
Discrete trial
Forward chaining
Stimulus control
Task analysis

Signals that reinforcement is available.
SD
Sdelta
SR-
VR-3

Examples are food, water, sex, sleep.
Secondary reinforcement
Primary reinforcement
Sd
Consequence of behavior

Examples are money and tokens.
Primary reinforcement
Secondary reinforcement
Economic reinforcement
Fiscal considerations

Increases the future likelihood of behavior.
Punishment
Motivation
Rewards
Reinforcement

Adding a stimulus which increases the future likelihood of behavior.
Positive reinforcement
Positive punishment
Negative reinforcement
Negative punishment

Verbal behavior with point-to-point correspondence.
Mand
Tact
Intraverbal
Echoic

Removing a stimulus which decreases the future likelihood of behavior.
Positive reinforcement
Positive punishment
Negative reinforcement
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

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

Verbal behavior of requesting
Mand
Tact
Echoic
Intraverbal

Removing a stimulus which decreases the future likelihood of behavior.
Positive reinforcement
Positive punishment
Negative reinforcement
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 enter data at the end of a shift properly!

-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.

What occurs before the behavior?
Antecedent
Response
Behavior
Consequence

Example, "do this."
SD
DRA
Sdelta
SR+

What occurs after the behavior?
Antecedent
Behavior
Response
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

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

Start with most intrusive prompt.
Forward chaining
Backwards chaining
Most to least prompting
Least to most prompting

Reinforcing gradual changes in behavior.
Chaining
Shaping
Prompting
Reinforcing

Teaching a task analysis by teaching the first step first.
Forward chaining
Prompting
Backwards chaining
Fading

Start with least intrusive prompt.
Forward chaining
Backwards chaining
Least to most prompting
Most to least prompting

Teaching the entire task analysis at once
Total task presentation
Single task presentation
Discriminative stimulus
Forward chaining

Reinforcement provided on the average of every 5 correct responses
VR-5
VI-5
FR-5
FI-5

Reinforcement provided every 10 minutes that behavior occurs.
FI-10
FR-10
VI-10
VR-10

MSWO:
Multiple stimulus with replacement
Multiple stimulus without replacement
Multiple stimulus with operates
Multiple settings with replacement

FBA:
free behavior assessment
functional behavior assessment
function of behavior analysis
Freudian 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

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

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

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 dollar bonus on their next pay check at ACME ABA company.

Withholding reinforcement for a target response
Variable reinforcement
Extinction
Punishment
Reinforcement schedule

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

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.

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.

What happens before/ immediately precedes behavior in data collection is known as the...
Antecedent
Motivation Operation
Preceding Stimulus
Setting event

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

Time between two successive responses.
Frequency
Duration
Intensity
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

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

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.

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

Teaching communication to replace problem behaviors.
Functional communication training
FIT
Differential reinforcement of other behaviors
FR-3 schedule of reinforcement

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

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

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

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

This follows a response and increases the probability of that response occurring again in the future.
Punishment
Reinforcement
Consequence
Stimulus

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

Food is an example of what type of reinforcer?
Unconditioned
Conditioned
Negative
Positive

Money is an example of what type of reinforcement?
Negative
Unconditioned
Secondary
Primary

Extremely bright lights, freezing temperature, electric shock are all examples of which punisher?
Conditioned
Unknown
Unconditioned
Secondary

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

Removing something that increases the future likelihood of behavior is called...
Negative punishment
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment
Positive reinforcement

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

Present 5 easy/ mastered tasks in quick succession immediately before presenting an acquisition target.
Behavior modification
Behavior momentum
Behavior inertia
Functional community training.

Is exaggerating covered by the RBT ethical code?
Yes
No

When working with a client, whose preferences should take priority?
Parent
Teacher
BCBA
Client

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

You become aware that a client's legal rights are being violated, which of the following actions should you take?
Contact relevant authorities
Follow the organization's policies
Document efforts to address the matter
Consult with your supervisor
All of the above

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

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

For every third correct response, you deliver a preferred edible. What reinforcement schedule is this?
FR-3
FI-3
VR-3
VI-3

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

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.