RBT Exam Notes Flashcards
A mismatch between an individual’s emotional response and a particular situation
Emotional Dysregulation
The ability to recognize how you are feeling, match those feelings to the situation, and calm yourself when you recognize you are becoming dysregulated.
Emotional Regulation
Interest in which an individual pursues with great intensity and focus about a narrow topic. The individual may have difficulty participating in activities and conversations that are not related to this special interest.
Restricted Interest
A situation which may include an exchange between two or more persons for the purpose of enjoying the companionship of each other
Social Situations
Sharing information with someone else using language.
Social-Communication
An intense level of focus on a particular item, activity, topic, etc. that exceeds that of same age peers.
Special Interests
A picture, graph, written word, etc. used to support understanding.
Visual
Persons who provide support or assistance to individuals with ASD and/or their families.
Direct Service Providers
When an individual is active in making the decisions that impact his or her life.
Self-Advocacy
An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest.
Antecedent
The use of the principles and methods of behavior analysis to bring about meaningful changes in socially important behaviors. Interventions must be applied, behavioral, analytical, technological, conceptually systematic, effective, and generalized.
Applied Behavior Analysis
The Behavior Analyst Certification Board®, Inc. (BACB®) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation established in 1998 to meet professional credentialing needs identified by behavior analysts, governments, and consumers of behavior analysis services.
BACB
The Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst® (BCaBA®) is an undergraduate-level certification in behavior analysis. Professionals who are certified at the BCaBA level may not practice independently, but must be supervised by someone certified at the BCBA/BCBA-D level. In addition, BCaBAs can supervise the work of Registered Behavior Technicians, and others who implement behavior-analytic interventions.
BCABA
The Board Certified Behavior Analyst® (BCBA®) is a graduate-level certification in behavior analysis. Professionals who are certified at the BCBA level are independent practitioners who provide behavior-analytic services. In addition, BCBAs supervise the work of Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analysts, Registered Behavior Technicians, and others who implement behavior-analytic interventions.
BCBA
Any action taken in response to the environment.
Behavior
A stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest.
Consequence
Information that can be analyzed to help with understanding progress toward goals. Data should guide decision making.
Data
See Topography
Form
An applied analysis of behavior requires that the target behavior be a function of an environmental event that can be practically and ethically manipulated.
Function of behavior
Directly “tests” the relations between environmental events and a challenging behavior. This level of assessment manipulates consequences and antecedents to demonstrate their effect on behavior.
Functional Analysis
A systematic process used to collect information and define the events or circumstances in the environment that predict and maintain a behavior or behaviors.
Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)
Supports and strategies tailored to meet a specific individual’s preferences, needs, and strengths.
Individualized
Strength or impact.
Intensity
The behavior to be changed or replaced. Another term for challenging or problem behavior. When a behavior is targeted for change, it is because it is interfering with a person’s participation or access.
Interfering behavior
Behavior that can be defined by focusing on something that can be seen or heard.
Observable Behavior
The Registered Behavior Technician™ (RBT®) is a paraprofessional who practices under the close, ongoing supervision of a BCBA, BCaBA, or FL-CBA. The RBT is primarily responsible for the direct implementation of behavior-analytic services. The RBT does not design intervention or assessment plans. It is the responsibility of the RBT supervisor to determine which tasks an RBT may perform as a function of his or her training, experience, and competence. The BACB certificant supervising the RBT is responsible for the work performed by the RBT on the cases they are overseeing.
Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)
Occurs when a stimulus change immediately follows a response and increases the future frequency of that type of behavior in similar conditions.
Reinforcement
Gaining new skills and behaviors.
Skill Acquisition
In ABA, an object, event or situation that cues a change in behavior.
Stimulus/Stimuli
The three parts of the discrete trial: discriminative stimulus, response, consequence.
Three term contingency
The physical form or shape of a behavior.
Topography
An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest.
Antecedent
A stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest.
Consequence
Information that can be analyzed to help with understanding progress toward goals. Data should guide decision making.
Data
Examines the interrelation between the environment and behavior.
Ecological Assessment
A generic term for a variety of behavioral processes and behavior change outcomes.
Generalization
The new skill(s) you are teaching in a behavior intervention plan.
Goal behavior
Supports and strategies tailored to meet a specific individual’s preferences, needs, and strengths.
Individualized
A goal that specifies the expected change in behavior or response by how much, how frequent, and/or what standard or level of change is expected.
Measureable Goal
Behavior that can be defined by focusing on something that can be seen or heard.
Observable Behavior