RBT / ABA EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
ABA reversal design - Answer-A single case design on which baseline and intervention
conditions are repeated with the same person.
Alternating treatment design - Answer-A single case design in which two or more
interventions alternate systematically.
Antecedents - Answer-Environmental events that occurs before a behavior occurs.
Applied behavior analysis - Answer-The attempt to solve behavior problems by
providing antecedents and/ or consequences that change a behavior.
Aversion therapy - Answer-A form of sensitization training in which a stimulus that
arouses an inappropriate positive response is paired with an aversive stimuli.
Backup reinforcer - Answer-A reinforcer that may be received in exchange for a token.
Backward chaining - Answer-A chaining procedure that begins with the last element in
the chain and progresses to the first element.
Baseline - Answer-A period during which the target behavior is recorded, but no attempt
is made to modify it.
Behavior - Answer-Anything a person does that can be observed.
Behavior analysis - Answer-The science of behavior change, the study of functional
relations between behavior and environmental events.
Behavior chain - Answer-A sequence of related behaviors, each of which provides the
cue for the next, and the last of which produces a reinforcer.
Behavior trapping - Answer-The procedure of bringing a target behavior under the
influence of its natural reinforcers by exposing it to those reinforcers.
Behavioral contrast - Answer-The tendency for changes in behavior outside the training
environment.
Behavioral repertoire - Answer-All things an individual is capable of doing at any given
moment.
Bootleg reinforcement - Answer-Reinforcement that is not part of; and tends to
undermine, an intervention.
, Chaining - Answer-The reinforcement of successive elements of a behavior chain.
Conditioned reinforcers - Answer-Reinforcers that are dependent on their association
with other reinforcers.
Conditioning - Answer-Any procedure by which an event comes to elicit a response by
being paired with an event that elicits that response.
Consequences - Answer-Environmental events that occur after a behavior.
Contingency contract - Answer-An agreement between two or more parties about what
each is to do for the other.
Continuous recording - Answer-Recording each and every occurrence of behavior
during a prescribed time.
Contrived reinforcers - Answer-Reinforcers that have been arranged by someone for the
purpose of modifying behavior.
Counterconditioning - Answer-The use of Pavlovian conditioning to undo the adverse
effects of earlier conditions.
Covert behavior - Answer-Behavior that can be observed only by the person performing
it.
Convert sensitization - Answer-A variation of aversion therapy in which the paired
events are imagined.
Cumulative frequency graph - Answer-A graph in which each data point indicates the
total number of times the behavior has occurred up to that point.
Daniel's dictum - Answer-The principle that solving behavior problems with behavior
analysis is more difficult than it appears. Daniel's is known for telling people "if you think
the stuff your doing is easy our doing it wrong"
Desensitization training - Answer-Any form of counterconditioning that reduces an
inappropriate negative response to an event.
Differential reinforcement - Answer-Any procedure that combines extinction and
reinforcement to change the frequency of a target behavior.
Discrimination training - Answer-Any procedure that results in a target behavior having
different frequencies in different situations.
CORRECT ANSWERS
ABA reversal design - Answer-A single case design on which baseline and intervention
conditions are repeated with the same person.
Alternating treatment design - Answer-A single case design in which two or more
interventions alternate systematically.
Antecedents - Answer-Environmental events that occurs before a behavior occurs.
Applied behavior analysis - Answer-The attempt to solve behavior problems by
providing antecedents and/ or consequences that change a behavior.
Aversion therapy - Answer-A form of sensitization training in which a stimulus that
arouses an inappropriate positive response is paired with an aversive stimuli.
Backup reinforcer - Answer-A reinforcer that may be received in exchange for a token.
Backward chaining - Answer-A chaining procedure that begins with the last element in
the chain and progresses to the first element.
Baseline - Answer-A period during which the target behavior is recorded, but no attempt
is made to modify it.
Behavior - Answer-Anything a person does that can be observed.
Behavior analysis - Answer-The science of behavior change, the study of functional
relations between behavior and environmental events.
Behavior chain - Answer-A sequence of related behaviors, each of which provides the
cue for the next, and the last of which produces a reinforcer.
Behavior trapping - Answer-The procedure of bringing a target behavior under the
influence of its natural reinforcers by exposing it to those reinforcers.
Behavioral contrast - Answer-The tendency for changes in behavior outside the training
environment.
Behavioral repertoire - Answer-All things an individual is capable of doing at any given
moment.
Bootleg reinforcement - Answer-Reinforcement that is not part of; and tends to
undermine, an intervention.
, Chaining - Answer-The reinforcement of successive elements of a behavior chain.
Conditioned reinforcers - Answer-Reinforcers that are dependent on their association
with other reinforcers.
Conditioning - Answer-Any procedure by which an event comes to elicit a response by
being paired with an event that elicits that response.
Consequences - Answer-Environmental events that occur after a behavior.
Contingency contract - Answer-An agreement between two or more parties about what
each is to do for the other.
Continuous recording - Answer-Recording each and every occurrence of behavior
during a prescribed time.
Contrived reinforcers - Answer-Reinforcers that have been arranged by someone for the
purpose of modifying behavior.
Counterconditioning - Answer-The use of Pavlovian conditioning to undo the adverse
effects of earlier conditions.
Covert behavior - Answer-Behavior that can be observed only by the person performing
it.
Convert sensitization - Answer-A variation of aversion therapy in which the paired
events are imagined.
Cumulative frequency graph - Answer-A graph in which each data point indicates the
total number of times the behavior has occurred up to that point.
Daniel's dictum - Answer-The principle that solving behavior problems with behavior
analysis is more difficult than it appears. Daniel's is known for telling people "if you think
the stuff your doing is easy our doing it wrong"
Desensitization training - Answer-Any form of counterconditioning that reduces an
inappropriate negative response to an event.
Differential reinforcement - Answer-Any procedure that combines extinction and
reinforcement to change the frequency of a target behavior.
Discrimination training - Answer-Any procedure that results in a target behavior having
different frequencies in different situations.
