Registered Behavior Technician Exam questions with correct answers

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) - Answer The application of the principles of behavior to socially significant issues in order to produce meaningful and measurable change. Behavior theory - Answer Explains what people do and why they do it by using what can be seen and heard. Behavior - Answer Everything that a living organism does. Deprivation state - Answer The person cannot have something that they want whenever they want it. Three-Term Contingency (ABC) - Answer Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence Discriminative stimuli - Answer Cues that influence operant behavior by indicating the probable consequences (reinforcement or nonreinforcement) of a response. Two reasons for behavior - Answer Escape and gain Motivating operations MO - Answer An environmental variable that (a) alters (increases or decreases) the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event; and (b) alters (increases or decreases) the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus