RBT Exam - Skill Acquisition | 100% Correct Answers

What are the essential components of a written skill acquisition plan? (7 steps) - Identify a skill deficit, create a goal to address it, identify measurement procedures, assess current skill level (baseline), select and implement procedures, collect data to determine effectiveness, and modify if necessary. How do you prepare for a session, as required by the skill acquisition plan? - Determine where to start by looking at what occurred last session, select which skill acquisition procedures to complete, ad prepare the materials you will need for the procedure and data collection. What is reinforcement? - Any stimulus that, when presented immediately following a behavior, increases the frequency of the behavior. What is unconditioned vs. conditioned reinforcement? - Inherent/natural stimuli that increase behavior vs. previously neutral stimuli that now increases behavior due to association with an already established reinforcer. What is continuous reinforcement (CRF) vs. intermittent reinforcement (INT)? - Reinforcement given consistently and frequently (each instance of behavior), used in learning new behaviors vs. reinforcement given occasionally (some instances of behavior), used in maintaining behaviors and progressing to naturally occurring reinforcement What is fixed ratio vs. variable ratio? - Reinforcement occurring every X response, vs reinforcement after a random/inconsistent number of responses. What is fixed interval vs. variable interval? - Reinforcement occurring after X amount of time, vs reinforcement occurring after a random/inconsistent amount of time. What are 5 discrete trial training procedures? - Mass Trial, Distractor Trial, Random Rotation, Expanded Trial, Maintenance/Generalization What is a mass trial? - Only one target, presented with prompts. Prompt is faded until child is consistently correct.