RBT FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS VERIFIED CORRECT

What is ABA? - The scientific study of principles of learning and behavior What are two primary areas of study in ABA? - Experimental and Applied ABA is a systemic approach for influencing ____________________ through the identification of reliably related environmental variables, and the production of behavior change techniques that make use of those findings - socially important behavior Seven Dimensions of ABA - (GET A CAB) Generality, Effective, Technological, Applied, Conceptually systematic, Analytic, Behavioral What is the RBT primarily responsible for? - Direct implementation of behavior-analytic services What are the 3 steps in becoming an RBT? - 1. 40 hour training course 2. Competency Assessment 3. RBT Board Certification Exam What are the core symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder? - Social challenges, communication difficulties, repetitive behaviors What is a stakeholder? - A person or professional who has vested interest in the development of a particular individual As an RBT, expect ongoing supervision for a minimum of ______% of the hours spent providing ABA services per month and must include at least ____ face to face contacts per month - 5; 2 Pairing period - creating a relationship through play and introducing reinforcement Discriminative Stimulus (SD) - A stimulus in the presence of which responses of some type have been reinforced and in the absence of which the same type of responses have occurred and not been reinforced Target Behavior - the behavior that has been selected for change Baseline data - Behavior levels prior to treatment or manipulation Stimulus - A change in environment What is the behavior short hand? - bx Behavior can be - Observed, described, and recorded Behavior needs to pass the ___________ __________ - Dead man test Dead Man Test - If a dead man can do it, it is not behavior created by odgen lindsley Behavior can be verbal, - non verbal, overt, covert, respondent, operant Operational definition - Describing behavior and environment in observable and measurable terms Components of operational definition - Topography, intensity, temporal locus, temporal extent, repeatability Target behaviors should be ________________ defined in clear and explicit terms - Operationally Behavior is functionally related to the ____________ of which it occurs - environment Function - Why a behavior continues, what keeps it around Determining the function of a behavior enables us to change the __________________, which is how we change bx! - The environment What are the 4 functions of behavior? - Attention, Access to tangibles, Escape, Automatic (sensory) Attention function - When behaviors result in immediate attention from others Access to tangibles function - When behaviors result in access to reinforcing materials or other stimuli Escape function - When behaviors are learned as a result of their effectiveness in terminating or postponing aversive events Automatic (sensory) - When behaviors occur independent of the social mediation of others Lucy sees her brother playing with a toy horse. She asked him to play with the toy. He says no. Lucy hits her brother until he gives her the toy to play with. - Access to tangibles Lucy is sitting eating dinner and her mom gets a call. Her mom walks out of the room and is talking on the phone. Lucy begins to scream for her mom and throw food around the table. Lucy's mom walks to Lucy and hangs up the phone. Lucy stops screaming when her mom walks over. - Attention Every time Lucy is in math class, she curses at her classmates and gets thrown out of class to the principles office. - Escape What is the three term contingency? - Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence Antecedent - What happens immediately before the behavior (may have a correlation to function) Consequence - The result of the behavior Often determines the function of the behavior Reinforces, punishes, or extinguishes behavior When a stimulus change immediately follows a response and increases the frequency of that type of behavior in similar conditions - Reinforcement