RBT Practice Exam #5 questions and answers completely solved and graded to pass!

The instructor is following the learner's lead in the treatment session, including choosing learning activities based on what the learner is interested in and using items that are naturally reinforcing to the learner. This might best be categorized as _____. a. Natural environment training b. Discrete trial teaching c. Child development training d. Natural discrete training a. Natural environment training _____ refers to the number of times a behavior is observed, while _____ refers to the number of times a behavior has occurred per observation time (i.e., per hour). a. Count; rate/frequency b. Rate/frequency; count c. Latency; frequency/rate d. Rate/frequency; latency a. Count; rate/frequency 00:45 01:01 Your client's rate of self-injurious behavior has increased. The previous rate was 1 time per hour and the rate for your last session was 27 times per hour. You should _____. a. Contact the BCBA immediately and inform her of the behavior change after the session was over b. Contact the other therapists to see if they are documenting the behavior correctly c. Wait and see if the behavior decreases over the next several days d. Tell the parent to cancel session for the rest of the week, he is obviously not feeling well and needs a chance to rest a. Contact the BCBA immediately and inform her of the behavior change after the session was over You work with a client and his parents' private health insurance pays for his treatment. The school district has contacted you to ask about the client's behaviors at home. What do you need to be sure you have before speaking to them? a. The ability to bill for the time to talk to the district b. The phone number to call them back c. The appropriate authorizations to talk to the district (i.e., HIPAA forms) and the authorization from your program supervisor d. Nothing, you can speak to them because they also work with the client c. The appropriate authorizations to talk to the district (i.e., HIPAA forms) and the authorization from your program supervisor RBTs are mandated reporters by law. All of the following situations would require an RBT to make a report to authorities, EXCEPT ______. a. Witnessing emotional, verbal or physical abuse of a child or elder b. Witnessing an individual discuss imminent suicidal intentions c. Learning of a caregiver withholding nourishment or medical care to a child or elder d. Learning of a caregiver only feeding a child unhealthy foods and living in a messy house d. Learning of a caregiver only feeding a child unhealthy foods and living in a messy house Tito engages in slapping behavior when presented with instructions during learning activities. The behavior has been determined to be maintained by escape from demands. The behavior intervention plan indicates that the therapists will teach Tito to sign the word "break" so that he can get what he needs without slapping. Extinction is to be used as an intervention when slapping occurs. You present the instruction for a learning activity and Tito slaps you. Which best explains how you would implement the intervention? a. Block the slapping behavior with your hand, provide the instruction "hands down" and continue the learning activity b. Provide Tito with a break since one is clearly needed c. Reinforce Tito for not engaging in slapping for designated periods of time. When slapping does occur ignore the behavior d. Continue presenting the instruction and do not respond to the slapping behavior d. Continue presenting the instruction and do not respond to the slapping behavior Michael is learning to follow a written schedule of tasks at his work site. Next to each written task is a picture showing what the task involves. As Michael becomes more proficient at following the schedule, the picture cues are faded to gradually lighter shades of color, and eventually are removed completely so that the words are all that remain. This procedure is an example of _____. a. Discrete trial training b. Natural environment teaching c. Preference assessment d. Stimulus fading procedure d. Stimulus fading procedure Which of the following are appropriate ways for an RBT to provide training to stakeholders (i.e., parents, caregivers, family members)? a. Provide recommendations for other types of treatments which may be helpful to the client b. Provide respite and/or babysitting to the family c. Share information or ideas from other client's programs which may be helpful for the client d. Demonstrate interventions designed by the BCBA or supervisor for the caregivers to observe and practice with support d. Demonstrate interventions designed by the BCBA or supervisor for the caregivers to observe and practice with support Generalization activities should be intentionally programmed into a learner's treatment plan, including generalization across ______. a. Settings and situations b. People c. Stimuli (variations of materials, pictures, objects) d. All of the above d. All of the above Which of the following activities would be inappropriate for an RBT to perform? a. Implementing the hand washing lesson the BCBA has designed for the client b. Implementing the escape extinction behavior plan that was created specifically for the client c. Interpreting the data for a new behavior of skin picking and evaluating the effectiveness of the intervention d. Assisting in caregiver training by modeling lessons for the parents c. Interpreting the data for a new behavior of skin picking and evaluating the effectiveness of the intervention Which of the following is a true statement regarding an RBT having a dual relationship with a client? a. Dual relationships with clients are acceptable and result in good working relationships between professionals and clients b. Dual relationships should be avoided at all times as they can impair the clinical judgement of the professionals to do what is right for the client c. Dual relationships are impossible to avoid and typically do not have a detrimental effect on the client treatment d. Only romantic or sexual relationships are considered dual relationships b. Dual relationships should be avoided at all times as they can impair the clinical judgement of the professionals to do what is right for the client You are working at a school with one of your clients, and you are collecting data on skill acquisition targets and challenging behaviors. Who are you allowed to share the data with? a. The parents of the other students in the classroom b. The other students in the classroom c. Your program supervisor, the parents of the client, anyone the parents have given written consent to share the information with d. Any of the school staff since the school is paying for your services c. Your program supervisor, the parents of the client, anyone the parents have given written consent to share the information with