Mock Exam Questions 1 Flashcards
The goal of a stimulus preference assessment is to ______
identify objects, people, or activities that may be motivating
A behavior reinforced on a continuous schedule would look like ________
A child being given a sticker for each time he raises his hand instead of blurting
You need to take data on tantruming behavior. What is the best type of measurement to use?
Duration
Putting a big pink sticker next to the start button on the washing machine is an example of __________
Prompting
We can say that a skill has been generalized when __________
It’s use is evident in settings and situations other than the training environment
When we are thirsty, water quenches that thirst and satiates us. This makes water a __________
Unconditioned Reinforcer
A young man with autism is thought to need instruction in communicating with family. Using email is decided upon as the best way for him to do this. He needs to be able to check his email first. Then, he can be assisted to compose correspondence. Currently, the young man needs prompting through almost every step of checking his email and he is able to follow written instructions. What is the best way to proceed?
Task analyze checking the email and provide written prompts, faded over time
What are the 3 main components to DTT?
- Instruction
- Response
- Consequence
An RBT working in a preschool setting uses the teaching method of keeping highly engaging items in the childrens sight, but out of their reach as a way to evoke verbal engagement about the items, and to cause children to have to ask him for the items. This strategy is called __________
Naturalistic/Incidental Teaching
What does the term “extinction” refer to?
Withholding all reinforcement
Your clients mother being your best friend is an example of __________
A multiple relationship
An RBT implementing a skills acquisition plan should plan for a training session by __________
Reviewing the plan, asking clarifying questions, and gathering all necessary materials
If you prompt the client through all steps of a chain except the past step, you are using
Backwards Chaining
A child cries every time his mother is in the phone. The mother puts down the phone and hugs the child. The most likely function of the child’s behavior is __________
Access to attention
Chaining is the process of teaching the sub-components of a larger task and chaining them together to teach a complete task. The chaining procedure which teaches each step of the chain during each training session is called _________
Total Task Chaining
_________ refers to frequency with the addition of a time component
Rate
Janelle asks her client to go to the store and buy one loaf of bread, a stick of butter, and a quart of milk. When he returns she checks his shopping bag to make sure he purchased every item on the list. Janelle is using _________
Permanent Product Recording
You have been asked to determine the IRT of a behavior. You record _________
The time from the end of one response to the beginning of the next
Permanent product procedures would be most appropriate for _________
Checking if a resident of a group home is able to get all of thr groceries on their list
Thr most common graph used in ABA is the _________
Line graph
Your client has successfully mastered how to place an order for fast food in a training setting where you have set up a menu, counter, and cash register. In order to see if she can perform the necessary skills at a real fast food place you should first _________
Change a critical feature in the training setting, like who is tasking the order
Two brothers had a habit of rinsing their dishes after each meal but failed to put them in the dishwasher. Instead, they would put them on the side of the sink. Their parents modeled the behavior of rinsing their dishes and then stacking them in the dishwasher. After 5 training sessions with their parents, the boys were able to complete the entire task of rinsing and loading their dishes. If the parents want this behavior to be maintained, what should they do?
Set up a schedule of reinforcement for task completion
Jill is trying to keep a child from picking his nose and wiping his fingers on classmates. Jill requires students to hold a pencil in one hand and an eraser in another hand during their entire social skills lesson. The following procedure describes _________
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
ABA professionals base their professional practices on _________
Scientific knowledge
Jenny is going to collect data on Ellie, a preschooler’s hair twirling behavior. She decides to track 30 second intervals and if Ellie twirls her hair all the way around her finger, Jenny defines that as an incidence of hair twirling. If Ellie demonstrates the hair twirling at any point during the 30 second interval, Jenny marks her data sheet as the behavior having occurred for that interval. Jenny is using _______
Partial Interval Recording
If you are prompt fading and you allow a minute to see if the client can do the skill, you are using _______
Time Delay Prompting
How often should RBT’s update aggregate data?
After each session
When a client is learning a new skill, the ideal schedule of reinforcement would be _______
FR 1
Response prompts may be ________
modeling, verbal, physical guidance
What would be the most conservative direct, discontinuous measurement to track a child’s engagement during a class lesson?
Whole Interval Recording
A one time trial to correctly perform a task or answer a question before an inter-trial pause and the beginning of a new trial is called _________
Discrete Trial Training
Having a pictorial graphic of a math problem that illustrates the problem and the answer and then removing the pictorial aspect is an example of what?
Stimulus fading
In order to teach discrimination training, a behavior professional must teach a client to __________
discriminate between two or more stimuli
In a written Behavior Reduction Plan, antecedent or environmental strategies refers to _________
Manipulating in the environment to prevent or discourage the problem behavior
Zoe, an RBT, is working with a client. She has completed a preference assessment and has determined going out for frozen yogurt to be a likely reinforcer for the client. The client typically goes to frozen yogurt every other day. If Zoe wants to begin a skills acquisition plan on Thursday, using frozen yogurt as a potential reinforcer, how might she manipulate the environment to her advantage?
Deprive the client of frozen yogurt Monday through Wednesday
If you use a visual schedule with a client, it is what type of prompt?
Visual prompt
A child being praised when selecting a pink crayon from a box when asked to do so is an example of ________
Discrimination training
Changing the environment by enriching it, is an example of _________
An antecedent technique
Molly wants to know how long it takes her client to get dressed after being given the instructions to get dressed. She should use ________ data
Latency
Paul is modeling the correct skill for the client, this is called ________
Model Prompt
Lizzy, an RBT, is teaching her client to use sign-language to signal for a break instead of yelling when she is frustrated. The student simply has to sign “break.” This is an example of __________
Differential Reinforcement of an Alternative Behavior (DRA)
Kevin dislikes the way Amy yells from the other room. She thinks that everyone can hear what she is saying, even though she is far away. In the past, Kevin has answered her, or replied “I can’t hear you.” He has now decided not to acknowledge her yelling from another room at all. He is implementing the behavioral procedure of _________
Extinction
You believe a client you are working with would find edibles reinforcing. They have no health or dietary restrictions. You decide you would like to see if they prefer potato chips or fruit and yogurt. You offer a choice of a potato chip and a tube of yogurt at the same time. They select the yogurt. Then you offer the choice of a yogurt and bowl of mixed fruit at the same time. Again they select the yogurt. You have conducted a ___________
Forced choice preferrence assessment
Schedules of reinforcement can be both continuous or it is intermittent. Behavior on ________ schedules of reinforcement is the most difficult behavior to extinguish
Intermittent
Sally prompts a client by pointing to the correct answer. This is called _________
Gestural Prompt
