ABA Rocks RBT Exam Updated

ABA Rocks RBT Exam Updated 1. Pivotal Response Training (PRT): Targets critical areas that improve many dif- ferent individual responses, emphasizes child's choice, takes place in the natural environment, heavily emphasizes the family's involvement, and multiple cues are used to evoke behavior 2. Prompt Fading: A type of teaching in which prompts are systematically faded until the learner is able to emit the target response without assistance 3. Shaping Procedures: Successive approximations of a behavior are differentially reinforced while less preferred behavior contacts lesser or no reinforcement (extinc- tion) as behavior is gradually changed in the desired direction 4. Incidental Teaching (IT): The therapist waits for the child to initiate a response with an item of interest; a time delay and prompting are used to evoke a request (mand) and questions are asked to evoke more elaborate language regarding the object(s) of interest 5. Token Economy: A system where an arbitrary stimulus is conditioned to function as a reinforcer; these stimuli are earned by engaging in specific behavior(s), and are periodically exchanged for backup reinforcers from a store 6. Essential Components of a Skill Acquisition Plan: 1) target behavior 2) materi- als / setting 3) prompting strategies 4) consequences 5) mastery criteria 6) planning for generalization & maintenance 7. Task Analyzed Chaining Procedures: A behavior is broken down into easy steps, with each step's completion serving as the reinforcer for the previous step and SD for the next step 8. Discrete Trial Training: Adult-led teaching method with ~5 distinct parts, very exactly structured, has precise contingency design, is often taught multiple times with short gaps between opportunities in a contrived setting 9. Task Analysis: A complex behavior is broken down into easy steps, with each step's completion serving as the reinforcer for the previous step and SD for the next step 10. What does reliability of a measurement system refer to?: The extent to which a measurement system yields the same value upon repeated tests 11. When we refer to the validity of a measurement system, we are referring to what?: Data are directly related to the behavior being measured and the reasons for measuring it 12. Which are examples of discontinuous data collection?: Partial Interval, Whole Interval, Momentary Time Sampling 13. What ARE one of the advantages of rate data collection?: Allows us to directly compare behavior when the observation period might vary in length 14. What type of design is employed by a functional analysis to verify the maintaining variables of a given behavior?: Alternating Treatments Design