PEARSON RBT STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Every time his mother removes items from him, a client engages in a tantrum. Mom
tries to ignore him but after around five minutes mom gives him back the item she
removed and the tantrum immediately stops. What function is most likely maintaining
the tantrums? - ✔✔Social Positive (attention/access)
✔✔A client hits other students in his class during work and break times. Each time he
hits another students the teacher immediately provides a verbal reprimand. What
function does his hitting most like serve? - ✔✔Social Positive (attention/access)
✔✔You work with a client who drops legos on the floor for hours if left alone. The client
does this even if others are playing with him, when no demands are being placed, and
when given free access to a number of preferred toys. What is the function of the lego
dropping behavior? - ✔✔Automatic Positive (sensory stimulation)
✔✔antecedent - ✔✔A stimulus that occurs before the behavior
✔✔consequence - ✔✔A stimulus that occurs after the behavior
✔✔reason to conduct assessments - ✔✔to discover behavioral deficits, to discover
behavior excesses, to identify environment variables
✔✔True/False: A functional assessment is a set of procedures used to identify the
cause of a problem behavior or socially inappropriate behavior. - ✔✔True
✔✔functional analysis - ✔✔The deliberate manipulation of variables to evoke a target
behavior to determine the function of the behavior.
✔✔functional Behavior Assessment - ✔✔all of the above
(a set of interviews conducted to identify the function of a behavior, observations of the
problem behavior as it is occurring in the natural setting, and functional analysis)
✔✔ABC stands for - ✔✔Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence
✔✔reinforcer - ✔✔A stimulus that increases or maintains the frequency of a behavior
✔✔punisher - ✔✔A stimulus that decreases the future frequency of a behavior.
✔✔example of a primary reinforcer - ✔✔food, water, warmth.
✔✔example of a secondary reinforcer - ✔✔bell, token, praise.
, ✔✔manipulation if Motivating Operations is a - ✔✔Antecedent intervention
✔✔True/False: an Establishing Operation increases the value of a particular reinforcer -
✔✔True
✔✔True/False: An Abolishing Operation decreases the value of a particular reinforcer -
✔✔True
✔✔main purpose of pairing yourself with reinforcement - ✔✔to make you reinforcing to
the client
✔✔differential reinforcement - ✔✔reinforcing a desired behavior while discontinuing the
reinforcement for an undesired behavior.
✔✔not a DR procedure - ✔✔Differential reinforcement of appropriate behaviors.
✔✔incompatible behavior for hand flipping - ✔✔Squeezing hands together.
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔Discontinuation of a reinforcement of a previously reinforced
behavior; the primary effect is a decrease in the frequency of behavior until it reaches a
pre-reinforced level or ultimately ceases to occur.
✔✔True/False: Extinction is most effective when used as a stand-alone procedure? -
✔✔False.
✔✔You are working with a client who engages in verbal aggression. The BCBA on the
case has determined that the verbal aggression is maintain by escape from demands.
The BCBA asks you to use extinction as a part of the intervention plan. Briefly describe
what this procedure would look like. - ✔✔Not allowing the client to escape from
demands when he/she engages in verbal aggression and providing no reaction or
response to the verbal aggression.
✔✔You are working with a client who engages in tantrums that are maintained by
access to tangibles. The BCBA instructs you to implement extinction. Briefly describe
what this procedure would look like for this case. - ✔✔Not providing tangibles when the
client engages in tantrum behaviors and providing no reaction or response to the
tantrum behavior.
✔✔True/False: There are times as an RBT you will have to implement emergency/crisis
strategies. - ✔✔True
✔✔example of an emergency/crisis management strategy. - ✔✔Relocate people,
Remove unnecessary demands, and rearrange the environment
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Every time his mother removes items from him, a client engages in a tantrum. Mom
tries to ignore him but after around five minutes mom gives him back the item she
removed and the tantrum immediately stops. What function is most likely maintaining
the tantrums? - ✔✔Social Positive (attention/access)
✔✔A client hits other students in his class during work and break times. Each time he
hits another students the teacher immediately provides a verbal reprimand. What
function does his hitting most like serve? - ✔✔Social Positive (attention/access)
✔✔You work with a client who drops legos on the floor for hours if left alone. The client
does this even if others are playing with him, when no demands are being placed, and
when given free access to a number of preferred toys. What is the function of the lego
dropping behavior? - ✔✔Automatic Positive (sensory stimulation)
✔✔antecedent - ✔✔A stimulus that occurs before the behavior
✔✔consequence - ✔✔A stimulus that occurs after the behavior
✔✔reason to conduct assessments - ✔✔to discover behavioral deficits, to discover
behavior excesses, to identify environment variables
✔✔True/False: A functional assessment is a set of procedures used to identify the
cause of a problem behavior or socially inappropriate behavior. - ✔✔True
✔✔functional analysis - ✔✔The deliberate manipulation of variables to evoke a target
behavior to determine the function of the behavior.
✔✔functional Behavior Assessment - ✔✔all of the above
(a set of interviews conducted to identify the function of a behavior, observations of the
problem behavior as it is occurring in the natural setting, and functional analysis)
✔✔ABC stands for - ✔✔Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence
✔✔reinforcer - ✔✔A stimulus that increases or maintains the frequency of a behavior
✔✔punisher - ✔✔A stimulus that decreases the future frequency of a behavior.
✔✔example of a primary reinforcer - ✔✔food, water, warmth.
✔✔example of a secondary reinforcer - ✔✔bell, token, praise.
, ✔✔manipulation if Motivating Operations is a - ✔✔Antecedent intervention
✔✔True/False: an Establishing Operation increases the value of a particular reinforcer -
✔✔True
✔✔True/False: An Abolishing Operation decreases the value of a particular reinforcer -
✔✔True
✔✔main purpose of pairing yourself with reinforcement - ✔✔to make you reinforcing to
the client
✔✔differential reinforcement - ✔✔reinforcing a desired behavior while discontinuing the
reinforcement for an undesired behavior.
✔✔not a DR procedure - ✔✔Differential reinforcement of appropriate behaviors.
✔✔incompatible behavior for hand flipping - ✔✔Squeezing hands together.
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔Discontinuation of a reinforcement of a previously reinforced
behavior; the primary effect is a decrease in the frequency of behavior until it reaches a
pre-reinforced level or ultimately ceases to occur.
✔✔True/False: Extinction is most effective when used as a stand-alone procedure? -
✔✔False.
✔✔You are working with a client who engages in verbal aggression. The BCBA on the
case has determined that the verbal aggression is maintain by escape from demands.
The BCBA asks you to use extinction as a part of the intervention plan. Briefly describe
what this procedure would look like. - ✔✔Not allowing the client to escape from
demands when he/she engages in verbal aggression and providing no reaction or
response to the verbal aggression.
✔✔You are working with a client who engages in tantrums that are maintained by
access to tangibles. The BCBA instructs you to implement extinction. Briefly describe
what this procedure would look like for this case. - ✔✔Not providing tangibles when the
client engages in tantrum behaviors and providing no reaction or response to the
tantrum behavior.
✔✔True/False: There are times as an RBT you will have to implement emergency/crisis
strategies. - ✔✔True
✔✔example of an emergency/crisis management strategy. - ✔✔Relocate people,
Remove unnecessary demands, and rearrange the environment
