RBT COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
©BACB - Behavior Analyst Certification Board
©RBT Task List - 1. Measurement
2. Assessment
3. Skill Acquisition
4. Behavior Reduction
5. Documenting and Reporting
6. Professional Conduct and Scope of Practice
©What is a Behavior? - Anything a person says or does, which must be
observable or measurable. Two or more observers must agree that it
occurred.
©Principles of Behavior - Punishment
Extinction
Reinforcement
©Function of Behavior - Sensory (automatic, likes something)
Escape (escape or avoid aversive stimulus/situation)
Attention (gain positive or negative attention)
, Tangibles (access to preferred items)
©Reinforcement - in operant conditioning, any event that strengthens
the behavior it follows
©POSITIVE Reinforcement - is any stimulus that, when added or
presented after a response, strengthens the response.
For example, offering a child candy for cleaning his or her room is a
positive reinforcer.
©Types of Positive Reinforcement - edible, activity, tangible, social,
sensory
©NEGATIVE Reinforcement - is any stimulus that when subtracted
after a response, it strengthens the response.
Sam can get up from the dinner table (aversive stimulus) when she eats 2
bites of her broccoli (behavior).
©types of negative reinforcement - escape and avoidance
©PUNISHMENT - an event that decreases the behavior that it follows
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
©BACB - Behavior Analyst Certification Board
©RBT Task List - 1. Measurement
2. Assessment
3. Skill Acquisition
4. Behavior Reduction
5. Documenting and Reporting
6. Professional Conduct and Scope of Practice
©What is a Behavior? - Anything a person says or does, which must be
observable or measurable. Two or more observers must agree that it
occurred.
©Principles of Behavior - Punishment
Extinction
Reinforcement
©Function of Behavior - Sensory (automatic, likes something)
Escape (escape or avoid aversive stimulus/situation)
Attention (gain positive or negative attention)
, Tangibles (access to preferred items)
©Reinforcement - in operant conditioning, any event that strengthens
the behavior it follows
©POSITIVE Reinforcement - is any stimulus that, when added or
presented after a response, strengthens the response.
For example, offering a child candy for cleaning his or her room is a
positive reinforcer.
©Types of Positive Reinforcement - edible, activity, tangible, social,
sensory
©NEGATIVE Reinforcement - is any stimulus that when subtracted
after a response, it strengthens the response.
Sam can get up from the dinner table (aversive stimulus) when she eats 2
bites of her broccoli (behavior).
©types of negative reinforcement - escape and avoidance
©PUNISHMENT - an event that decreases the behavior that it follows
