RBT PRACTICE EXAM REVIEW
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Even though she has a huge exam tomorrow, Mary decides to go out with her friends.
She doesn't get home until 2am and ends up failing her exam. Mary never stays out
until 2am again before an exam. What influences Mary's behavior? - Answer-Positive
punishment
positive reinforcement - Answer-increasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers.
A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that, when presented after a response, strengthens
the response.
negative reinforcement - Answer-the reinforcement of a response by the removal,
escape from, or avoidance of an unpleasant stimulus
positive punishment - Answer-addition of something unpleasant
negative punishment - Answer-taking away a pleasant stimulus to decrease or stop a
behavior
magnitude - Answer-A dad is teaching his son how to hammer nails into pieces of wood.
The dad tells his son that he needs to hit the nails harder. The dad is referring to what
aspect of behavior?
Latency - Answer-The sound of a gun firing signals sprinters to start running. What
would the sprinters want to reduce relative to the gun going off and beginning to run?
continuous measurement requires a certain amount of resources - Answer-Which of the
following aspects is a disadvantage of using continuous measurement?
interresponse time (IRT) - Answer-Amount of time that elapses between two
consecutive instances of a response class
duration - Answer-length of time something lasts
continuous measurement - Answer-Measures all of the responses over a given period
what are examples of continuous measurement? - Answer-frequency, duration, rate,
and per opportunity
discontinuous measurement - Answer-Recording data on some instances of behavior,
such as through whole-interval, partial-interval and momentary time sampling.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Even though she has a huge exam tomorrow, Mary decides to go out with her friends.
She doesn't get home until 2am and ends up failing her exam. Mary never stays out
until 2am again before an exam. What influences Mary's behavior? - Answer-Positive
punishment
positive reinforcement - Answer-increasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers.
A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that, when presented after a response, strengthens
the response.
negative reinforcement - Answer-the reinforcement of a response by the removal,
escape from, or avoidance of an unpleasant stimulus
positive punishment - Answer-addition of something unpleasant
negative punishment - Answer-taking away a pleasant stimulus to decrease or stop a
behavior
magnitude - Answer-A dad is teaching his son how to hammer nails into pieces of wood.
The dad tells his son that he needs to hit the nails harder. The dad is referring to what
aspect of behavior?
Latency - Answer-The sound of a gun firing signals sprinters to start running. What
would the sprinters want to reduce relative to the gun going off and beginning to run?
continuous measurement requires a certain amount of resources - Answer-Which of the
following aspects is a disadvantage of using continuous measurement?
interresponse time (IRT) - Answer-Amount of time that elapses between two
consecutive instances of a response class
duration - Answer-length of time something lasts
continuous measurement - Answer-Measures all of the responses over a given period
what are examples of continuous measurement? - Answer-frequency, duration, rate,
and per opportunity
discontinuous measurement - Answer-Recording data on some instances of behavior,
such as through whole-interval, partial-interval and momentary time sampling.
