RBT Comprehensive Exam Questions
and Answers 2025
Echolalia should always be discouraged and stopped - Answers-False
Once a child with autism learns to speak they become a good communicator - Answers-
False
Speech, language, and communication are all synonymous - Answers-False
Rules and routines can be more comprehensible with visual supports - Answers-True
It is best to try any avoid transitions with children with ASD - Answers-False
Which Does not fall under pervasive development disorder - Answers-*** Not all of the
above
It is estimated that what percentage of children with autism don't speak - Answers-***
Not 10%
Autism is the same as mental retardation - Answers-False
An example of a communication deficit is - Answers-*** Not eye contact
Research shows theres no causal relationship between immunizations and ASD -
Answers-True
If parents have a child with autism what is the chance they will have another child with it
- Answers-1 in 5
The ____ has direct responsibility for implementation of skill acquisition and behavior
reduction plans - Answers-RBT
What are examples of good data collection from parents - Answers-They record a log
book with brief intervention and child's performance, record the frequency of a behavior,
and record if the target behavior occurred
What is recording tangible items or environmental effects that result from a behavior? -
Answers-*** Not whole interval recording
What is response latency - Answers-The measure of time between an environmental
event and a response
, What is magnitude? - Answers-The force or intensity with which a response is emitted
_____ is something that appears to exist because of the way it is examined or recorded
- Answers-*** Not event recording
What type of recording would you use when you are interested in recording ongoing
behaviors that you know will continue across intervals? - Answers-Whole Interval
training
What does baseline data tell us - Answers-Information gathering and and evaluation of
the intervention
Name 2 types of goals that baseline data is recorded on - Answers-Academic, and
duration/shaping goals
Assessment is the systematic collection, review, and use of information about
educational programs undertaken for the purpose of improving student learning and
development - Answers-True
Baseline data should be graphed - Answers-True
What is the difference between a preference and a reinforcer? - Answers-A preference
is something they will likely accept or approach. A reinforcer must increase the
likelihood of a behavior.
Preferences and reinforcers can change from moment to moment - Answers-True
A free operant preference assessment must be conducted for at least 5 mins - Answers-
True
What is task analysis? - Answers-Breaking a complex skill or series of behaviors into
smaller teachable units. And Breaking a task down into its component parts ("links") in
order to create a sequence of related skills for instruction.
Behavior is not limited to challenging behaviors; rather behavior applies to all
observable and measurable acts by a living organism. - Answers-True
When the RBT enters the rooms the client stops what they are doing and turn to the
RBT. This action of the client in relation to Bobby coming into the room where he is
occurs more than 80% of the time. Bobby has stimulus control - Answers-True
An RBT is at the park with a client. She follows his lead and determines what he is
interested in. After that she begins a tasting sessions where he has to label different
characteristics of the object. This is an incidental teaching session - Answers-True
and Answers 2025
Echolalia should always be discouraged and stopped - Answers-False
Once a child with autism learns to speak they become a good communicator - Answers-
False
Speech, language, and communication are all synonymous - Answers-False
Rules and routines can be more comprehensible with visual supports - Answers-True
It is best to try any avoid transitions with children with ASD - Answers-False
Which Does not fall under pervasive development disorder - Answers-*** Not all of the
above
It is estimated that what percentage of children with autism don't speak - Answers-***
Not 10%
Autism is the same as mental retardation - Answers-False
An example of a communication deficit is - Answers-*** Not eye contact
Research shows theres no causal relationship between immunizations and ASD -
Answers-True
If parents have a child with autism what is the chance they will have another child with it
- Answers-1 in 5
The ____ has direct responsibility for implementation of skill acquisition and behavior
reduction plans - Answers-RBT
What are examples of good data collection from parents - Answers-They record a log
book with brief intervention and child's performance, record the frequency of a behavior,
and record if the target behavior occurred
What is recording tangible items or environmental effects that result from a behavior? -
Answers-*** Not whole interval recording
What is response latency - Answers-The measure of time between an environmental
event and a response
, What is magnitude? - Answers-The force or intensity with which a response is emitted
_____ is something that appears to exist because of the way it is examined or recorded
- Answers-*** Not event recording
What type of recording would you use when you are interested in recording ongoing
behaviors that you know will continue across intervals? - Answers-Whole Interval
training
What does baseline data tell us - Answers-Information gathering and and evaluation of
the intervention
Name 2 types of goals that baseline data is recorded on - Answers-Academic, and
duration/shaping goals
Assessment is the systematic collection, review, and use of information about
educational programs undertaken for the purpose of improving student learning and
development - Answers-True
Baseline data should be graphed - Answers-True
What is the difference between a preference and a reinforcer? - Answers-A preference
is something they will likely accept or approach. A reinforcer must increase the
likelihood of a behavior.
Preferences and reinforcers can change from moment to moment - Answers-True
A free operant preference assessment must be conducted for at least 5 mins - Answers-
True
What is task analysis? - Answers-Breaking a complex skill or series of behaviors into
smaller teachable units. And Breaking a task down into its component parts ("links") in
order to create a sequence of related skills for instruction.
Behavior is not limited to challenging behaviors; rather behavior applies to all
observable and measurable acts by a living organism. - Answers-True
When the RBT enters the rooms the client stops what they are doing and turn to the
RBT. This action of the client in relation to Bobby coming into the room where he is
occurs more than 80% of the time. Bobby has stimulus control - Answers-True
An RBT is at the park with a client. She follows his lead and determines what he is
interested in. After that she begins a tasting sessions where he has to label different
characteristics of the object. This is an incidental teaching session - Answers-True
