ABA Rocks Mock RBT Practice Exam Form A Questions with Correct Solutions

Skinner described Verbal Behavior according to _________ over _________. - Function, Form Negative Reinforcement, Positive Reinforcement Positive Reinforcement, Negative Reinforcement Form, Function ANSWER: Function, Form Tilda finished her session after being supervised by her BCBA. During the session, she recorded data on a paper data collection sheet. While she was cleaning up, she spilled a cup of coffee all over her data sheet, making it completely illegible. What should Tilda do? Her company has strict policies regarding staff who fail to properly enter data at the end of a shift! - Tilda should submit the coffee-stained paper data sheet to her supervisor during the next supervision session and resign. Tilda should notify her supervisor of the mishap and try to prevent such a fiasco in the future - perhaps by using mechanical or digital data collection systems. Tilda should try her best to estimate the client's performance on each skill target. After all, it wasn't that long ago - she can probably remember everything alright. Tilda should not record any data for that session - that would be unethical. No further action (such as contacting her supervisor) is necessary - if a supervisor sees no data collected, they automatically know that coffee was spilled on the paper data sheet due to their experience with coffee and paper in the past. ANSWER: Tilda should notify her supervisor of the mishap and try to prevent such a fiasco in the future - perhaps by using mechanical or digital data collection systems. Which of the following scenarios would be the least unethical decision to make? - A client makes a valentine's day card out of some construction paper and marker and gives it to her therapist, who is an RBT. The RBT, of course, accepts the card with gratitude. A client and an RBT are working when the client's father comes home from his place of work, where he is a baker. He offers the RBT a loaf of bread, and she accepts it. A client convinces her parents to buy her therapist a gift for her birthday. The parents decide it is a good lesson to teach the child (the value of giving to others) and agree, but they set a price cap of $50 on the gift. The child goes to the mall one day with the family, and they purchase a small piece of jewelry for $35, which the RBT happily accepts on her birthday. An RBT has been working with a family for years. One day, her car breaks down. The client's concerned family, who own a local car dealership, offer her a "friend" discount on a new car. The RBT is grateful for the assistance and readily accepts. ANSWER: A client makes a valentine's day card out of some construction paper and marker and gives it to her therapist, who is an RBT. The RBT, of course, accepts the card with gratitude. Who is the founder of Radical Behaviorism? - El Cid John Watson Lindsey Ogden B.F. Skinner ANSWER: B.F. Skinner When getting ready to collect behavior data, which of the following choices could be something you do to ensure you are well prepared and do a good job? - A cup of coffee is all anyone really needs - if anyone tells you elsewise, they're a liar or a tea-drinker. You need to know the client's name You can probably just wing it. You're pretty good at this, after all, and your memory is amazing. Before the session, identify the behaviors of interest and their response definitions, and collect any required data-collection tools you might need for your session, such as clickers / notepad & pen / etc. ANSWER: Before the session, identify the behaviors of interest and their response definitions, and collect any required data-collection tools you might need for your session, such as clickers / notepad & pen / etc. Preference assessments are formal methods to identify the relative preference an individual exhibits for multiple stimuli when that same person is unable to simply express preferences verbally. Which of the following is a common method for identifying a person's preference for various stimuli experimentally? - Many Stimulus (MS) Free Choice (FC) Multiple Stimulus Without Replacement (MSWO) Guided Choice Assessment (GCA) ANSWER: Multiple Stimulus Without Replacement (MSWO) A boy looks up at the sky and sees a bird. He says, "A bird!" What type of verbal operant the boy's vocalization ("a bird") most likely an example of? - An echoic A mand An intraverbal A tact ANSWER: A tact A tact is one of Skinner's elementary verbal operants. Tacts are under the antecedent control of non-verbal stimuli (like pictures, things, etc. - but not written words or text). Tacts are reinforced by generalized reinforcement. Which of the following is true about cumulative records? - Trends in a cumulative record can include a positive (increasing) and negative (decreasing) slope Data never decreases in a cumulative record; an increasing slope indicates occurrence of the target behavior, while a flat slope indicates periods of no occurrences of the target behavior A combination of all frequency scores into a single "master score index" used in statistical analysis to compare frequency charts for different types of radical behaviors Data is recorded once per session; downward slopes indicate a decreasing trend ANSWER: Data never decreases in a cumulative record; an increasing slope indicates occurrence of the target behavior, while a flat slope indicates periods of no occurrences of the target behavior Cumulative Records display a "running total" of behaviors that have occurred over a certain time period. A special thing to note about cumulative records is that they never decrease (slope downward) because they each point on the graph is always one more (+1) than the previous. Bonus fact: B.F. Skinner invented cumulative records! Mrs. Susan has two sons, Tim and Tom, who are both identical twins. The boys rough house and fist-fight a lot, and she does not know what to do with them. Soon, Mrs. Susan makes a new rule: every time the boys rough house or fist-fight, if she catches them, she will take away 15 minutes from their video game play time that day. After a few days, she notices that the boys stop fist-fighting and rough housing (at least, around her). What type of consequence is the removal of video game time which Mrs. Susan observes decreases the behavior of fist-fighting or rough-housing over time? - Positive Reinforcement Positive Punishment Negative Reinforcement Negative Punishment ANSWER: Negative Punishment Bill is working as a paraprofessional in a classroom of twenty five children. He is very busy! A BCBA working for the school recently asked him if he could take data on a student's fingernail "hoarding." More specifically, a student in his class will chew his fingernails and then store them in his pencil case or in the compartment of his desk. Since Bill is so busy, he offerred to take data on the real or object outcomes of the behavior - in this case, at the end of the day, Bill will clean the student's desk and count any fingernail clippings he finds there (and make a note if he observes any hoarding occurring away from the desk). In this scenario, what type of data collection is Bill using? - Total Product Count Permanent Product Frequency Objective Outcome ANSWER: Permanent Product Tommy walks up to Sally and says "Hey, do you know the time?" and Sally responds, "It is 3 o'clock!" Sally's verbal behavior, in this instance, would be best classified as a what type of operant? - An intraverbal An echoic A mand A tact ANSWER: An intraverbal Which of the following is the LEAST unethical decision? - A family is going on vacation and wants to bring their RBT along to help their child work on goals while on vacation. The RBT can't afford the trip, so the family decides to pay for their trip in order to bring them along. The RBT agrees, as this is a valid business expense.