RBT Exam Questions

Question 1

Tracking whether the behavior is currently occurring at the very end of a specified interval.

Answer 1

Momentary Time Sampling

Question 2

When a stimulus is added to the environment and this causes a decrease in the behavior over time, what type of consequential operation is this?

Answer 2

Positive Punishment

Question 3

A behavioral recording method in which durable products of a behavior-such as the number of windows broken, widgets produced, homework problems handed in, rejects, percentage of test questions correct, and so on-are assessed. Not suited to measuring transitory behaviors.

Answer 3

Permanent Product

Question 4

What is considered “best practice” when it comes to updating graphs and collecting data regarding behaviors measured during the day?

Answer 4

Charts should be updated at least weekly and you should make every effort to record data when you can while ensuring the welfare and safety of you and your client.

Question 5

The onset to start recording the length of time a behavior takes–specifically, crying (with or without tears) for longer than 10 seconds. The offset is described as the total absence of crying (with or without tears) for at least 10 seconds. What type of data collection does this most likely describe?

Answer 5

Duration

Question 6

Jimmy is measuring the amount of time it takes for his client to begin each step in a tooth brushing sequence. After his client picks up the toothpaste, he records that 10 seconds elapses before his client picks up his toothbrush. What is Jimmy recording?

Answer 6

Inter-Response Time

Question 7

Food, sex, water, breathable air, and any other stimuli that are necessary for life are what types of reinforcement?

Answer 7

Unconditioned

Question 8

Stimuli are presented in pairs and one choice is allowed at a time. All stimuli are matched together at least once. What assessment is this describing?

Answer 8

Paired Stimulus Preference Assessment

Question 9

Richard gives Nick a token about every 5th time Nick responds correctly. After Nick earns 5 tokens, he can exchange them for 10 minutes of video games. Nick is earning tokens on what schedule of reinforcement?

Answer 9

Variable Ratio

Question 10

Samantha collected the total number of times Edward slapped the table and said, “Well how about that?” during the one-hour Thanksgiving dinner. Samantha is recording what?

Answer 10

Frequency

Question 11

What are the 4 functions of behavior?

Answer 11

Sensory (or Automatic), Attention, Tangible, Escape

Question 12

Josie tells her client that it is time to work. Her client yells, “No!” and runs to the other room. What is the most likely function of behavior?

Answer 12

Escape

Question 13

What are the key components of a well-written skill acquisition target?

Answer 13

Teaching strategy (Presentation), discriminative stimuli (SD), appropriate response, reinforcement, error correction.

Question 14

JT was running a half marathon in the summer. He was in second place when he crossed the finish line! He was immediately offered a glass of water. Typically, JT does not drink water, he prefers coffee, however, he graciously accepted the water and asked for more after drinking it down. What type of operation affected JT drinking the water?

Answer 14

Establishing Operation

Question 15

Krista is learning how to tie her shoes. Her staff completes all the steps involved in tying a shoe then prompts her through pulling the loops tight. Once Krista is independently pulling the loops tight, her staff completes all the steps for her, prompt her through creating the second loop, and allows her to independently pull the loops tight. Krista is learning to tie her shoe using what method?

Answer 15

Backward Chaining

Question 16

Faith is an RBT working with Jenny. Faith shows Jenny a picture of a dog and a picture of a cat and says “Touch dog.” Jenny touches the picture of the dog. Faith tells her “Great job!” then tells her again “Touch dog.” Jenny touches the picture of the dog. Faith tells her “Great job!” then tells her again “Touch dog.” Jenny touches the picture of the dog. Faith tells her “Great job!” then tells her “Touch cat.” Jenny touches the picture of the cat. Faith tells her “great job!” and gives her a piece of candy. For this, she tracks one correct response for the entire interaction. Faith is running what type of program?

Answer 16

Block trial or switch trial

Question 17

While working with a 16-year-old client with irritable bowel syndrome, Cassidy exclaims
“ooooh-eeee! Somebody has the farts today?” in a joking tone. Her client is pretty much non-verbal, so it’s no big deal it’s not very likely they’ll feel embarrassed by farting a lot or having people comment on their farts. What’s the most salient ethical dilemma with Cassidy’s behavior?

Answer 17

Cassidy is not treating her client with dignity and respect.

Question 18

What does DRA stand for?

Answer 18

Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior

Question 19

An extinction procedure should never be used without what?

Answer 19

Differential Reinforcement

Question 20

Pairing the instructions, “Make a sandwich,” with a video model, then fading the video model until the client can make a sandwich when given the instruction only. What kind of procedure is being used?

Answer 20

Stimulus Control Transfer Procedure

Question 21

What is a conditioned reinforcer?

Answer 21

When a stimulus reinforces or strengthens set behaviors through its association with a primary reinforcer. Example: money, toys, stickers, verbal praise, bubbles, movies, etc.

Question 22

A client is reinforced for lack of maladaptive behavior by access to gum on a fixed interval schedule. The parent has just asked you to ensure your client is chewing gum while reading as she (the parent) read once that it assists the brain function during reading. What should you do?

Answer 22

Express concern that this might decrease the value of the reinforcer and offer to run the idea by the consultant.

Question 23

Andy reinforces his client’s engagement in a coloring activity about every 30 seconds, sometimes it is every 20 seconds, sometimes it is every 40 seconds. What is this an example of?

Answer 23

Variable Interval 30 seconds

Question 24

Wendy is working on a school project and is getting frustrated with it. She raises her hand and asks for a break, so her teacher allows her to take a break. In the future, Wendy asks for a break more often. What is this an example of?

Answer 24

Negative Reinforcement

Question 25

Stephanie is tracking the rate of David hitting his sister. She tracked between the hours of 12 pm and 3 pm. She tracked that he hit at the following times: 12:05, 12:51, 1:17, 2:34, and 2:47. What is the rate, per hour of David’s hitting his sister behavior?

Answer 25

1.7

Question 26

Krista has a client who engages in very frequent, yet brief, tantrum behavior. She is wanting to start tracking this behavior to see how often. Which data collection method would be most appropriate?

Answer 26

Frequency

Question 27

Nicole, a BCBA, is putting together a DRI for her client who is hitting peers in the hallway while walking in line. Nicole makes a plan where every time the child is in the hallway in line he will receive reinforcement if he does what?

Answer 27

Keeps his hands in his pockets.

Question 28

Venelope and Wreck it Ralph are attending Fix-It Felix’s birthday party; however, Ralph keeps popping the balloons, smashing the cake, and ripping the presents in half! Venelope and Felix decide they want to use differential reinforcement to decrease his destructive party behaviors by reinforcing him with mega gumballs each FI 3 minutes that he keeps his hands to himself and does not break anything. What type of differential reinforcement are they using?

Answer 28

Differential Reinforcement of Other Behaviors

Question 29

You are instructed to observe a client for 60 minutes, using partial interval recording on scratching one’s arm in 5-minute intervals. How do you collect data?

Answer 29

Mark it only if scratching occurred at the end of each 5-minute interval

Question 30

After telling Bob to tie his shoe, he looked at you for 7 seconds before starting to tie his shoes. He then took 39 seconds to complete the task. In this example, 7 seconds refers to what?

Answer 30

Latency

Question 31

Hannah is working with her client, Tom, who is learning to ask for the bathroom. Hannah, being an experienced therapist, knows that mastering just one example of a skill does not mean she’s done! With the help of Tom’s family, she establishes opportunities for Tom to practice requesting the bathroom in a variety of settings, with multiple caregivers, and establishes routine “checkups” to assess whether the skill is maintaining over time. This will help with what?

Answer 31

Generalization

Question 32

Ms. Susan has two sons, Tim and Tom, who are both identical twins. The boys rough house and fist-fight a lot, and she does not know what to do with them. Soon, Ms. Susan makes a new rule: every time the boys rough house or fist-fight, if she catches them, she will take away 15 minutes from their video game play time that day.

After a few days, she notices that the boys stop fist-fighting and roughhousing (at least, around her). What type of consequence is the removal of video game time which Mrs. Susan observes decreases the behavior of fist-fighting or rough-housing over time?

Answer 32

Negative Punishment

Question 33

While fighting crime one day, Batman discovers that the Joker will break the glass on vending machines in order to steal Hubba Bubba chewing gum. Because he’s rich, Batman is able to ensure that the vending machines no longer provide Hubba Bubba and puts the Joker’s glass breaking on extinction. Which of the following is an example of the Joker’s inevitable extinction burst?

Answer 33

Joker continues to not only break the glass on the machines but punches and kicks them as well while crying clown tears. This behavior lasts for a few days and then stops.

Question 34

Lindsey is working on homework when she hears children playing outside through her open window. Their loud voices are distracting, so she closes the window and continues working on homework. In the future, she closes the window whenever there are noises outside. Which contingency is illustrated in this example?

Answer 34

Lindsey’s closing window behavior was negatively reinforced by the removal of the noise.

Question 35

A client falls off a swing when you take them to the park. There are no visible injuries, but the child may have hit their head lightly on the ground. What should you do?

Answer 35

Tell the parents right away and contact the consultant after the session.

Question 36

Richard has a broken leg. He is sitting next to an open window and becomes cold. He asks his friend, who is in the room, to close the window and his friend does. The cold goes away. Richard is likely to ask his friend for help in the future due to what?

Answer 36

Negative reinforcement

Question 37

Savannah shows up for session with her 4-year-old client who is not toilet trained. His diaper was very full and appeared to have not been changed in many hours. Savannah did not see mom around the house and she began calling her name. After a few minutes of calling and not getting a response, she resolves to change the diaper herself. When she does, she notices he has a rash. Mom comes out of her room half asleep, apologizes, and takes over on the diaper changing. After the session, Savannah reaches out to the consultant to discuss her concerns. The consultant explains that mom has no help and she works graveyards, so she will likely be sleeping at the beginning of the session but to just wake her up and she will be involved. Each day Savannah shows up, her client is in the same condition as if he hadn’t had a diaper change in many hours. This is particularly concerning because her session starts at noon so she is unsure if mom is tending to him all morning. After expressing her concerns to her consultant again, she still feels concerned. What should Savannah do?

Answer 37

Call her local reporting agency because she is a mandatory reporter.

Question 38

Josie, a BCBA, is finishing up her work for the day. She puts away her clients’ files in her filing cabinet and locks the cabinet. After making sure there is no documents with client information, she leaves her office. She does not lock the door to her office because the main office door gets locked at the end of the day so when it is locked it will meet the 2 lock requirement for keeping records. However, she is leaving at 3 pm and the main office door does not get locked until 5 pm. In that time frame, there will be families and staff walking by her office. What should Josie do?

Answer 38

Lock her office door so nobody has access to any of the information in her office.

Question 39

Gabby asks her client “What color?” while holding up a red stimuli and asks her client “What color?” after he says “red,” Gabby provides reinforcement. She then repeats this process multiple times going through a variety of colors in no particular order. What is this an example of?

Answer 39

Discrete Trial Training Random Rotation

Question 40

Mallorie is providing direct care services to her client, John, over the holidays. During lunchtime, John’s mom offers Mallorie some homemade Christmas cookies in a cute bag along with a small gift. The gift cost less than $5 and Mallorie did not want to hurt her feelings. What should Mallorie do?

Answer 40

Mallorie should politely turn it down.

Question 41

Andrew has been asked to take paper scatterplot data on Billy’s nose-picking and booger eating data (which, incidentally, occurs most right before meals). He’s supposed to turn in the data sheets to the BCBA during his meeting next week. How should he store the data sheets in accordance with ethical standards?

Answer 41

In a locked briefcase in the trunk of his car or in another two-lock fashion.

Question 42

Scott engages in screaming “Gimme, gimme, gimme” repeatedly while reaching towards candy. He has learned how to say “candy” and he will request it occasionally. Josh, his consultant, decides to use an extinction procedure, in which functional requests for candy will be reinforced continuously, and screaming will be the behavior on extinction. While implementing this Scott is screaming and ends up slipping and falling. What should Josh do?

Answer 42

Offer comfort and insure he is not hurt, but continue to withhold the candy until he functionally requests it.

Question 43

Krista is at the park with her client, Anna. Anna is working on requesting to be pushed in the swing. After about 5 pushes, Krista stops the swing and waits for Anna to request “push please.” When Anna requests “push please,” Krista says “good job asking” and immediately begins pushing her again. After she has done this a few times, another adult walks up to her and asks her why she keeps stopping the swing. What would be an appropriate response?

Answer 43

Give a generic response such as: “We are learning to ask for things”

Question 44

Annie is teaching her client to say “water” to request water. Unfortunately, her client has not requested it all week, but instead will get a cup off the counter and get his own water. What can Annie do to contrive a situation that will increase her client’s requesting water behavior?

Answer 44

Annie can make sure there are no cups on the counter, or anywhere her client can reach them.

Question 45

Faith is providing direct care to her client, Joseph. During the session she experiences more frequent maladaptive behaviors that are also lasting longer than usual. At the end of the session she follows up with his dad about his behavior and finds out that he had missed breakfast that morning and it was almost time for lunch. This is an example of what?

Answer 45

A setting event and she should let the consultant know.

Question 46

April has recently been assigned on Jacob’s case. She is preparing for her first session with him by reading through his targets and behavior support plans and ensuring she is familiar with them before she starts. At the beginning of her session she greets him and brings out a few toys. After conducting a preference assessment with the toys, she begins running targets. Jacob engages in maladaptive behaviors and does not comply with demands. What is most likely the problem?

Answer 46

April did not take enough time to build rapport with Jacob before placing demands.