RBT Practice Exam

When teaching a child a new skill you should start with…

ABA therapist asked the mother to fill out a form about her child’s problem behavior. Filling a form is an example of…

Every time the teacher asks her student to point at a picture of a lion, she waits for one second before giving him/her the correct response. This is an example of….

In the variable or fixed (interval schedule) the word interval refers to…

Practicing a new skill with new people at different locations is Important for

Responding differently to the signs on the street such as the stop sign or the speed limit signs. Is it an example? 

Shahad is an excellent student, but her voice tone is too low the teacher can’t hear her when she answers the questions in class. We should work on the ……. of her voice

The teacher decided to praise the student every five minutes during the class regardless of their performance. This 

What is the most common generalized reinforcer for Adults?

What is an example of an unconditioned reinforcer?

Ahmed is asking his daughter to tell him the color of every car they see on their way to school. This is an example of…

To be able to measure the frequency of a behavior, the behavior must have a…

When a stimulus is ADDED to the environment, and this causes a DECREASE IN A BEHAVIOR over time, what type of consequential operation is this?

An example of discontinues data collection measure is

What is the easiest type of measurement to implement when a teacher wants to measure the behavior of 20 students in class?

Jenan Was able to answer five questions per hour during her math exam. This is an example of

When the behavior analyst is interested in Measuring how long a child engages in cooperative play, which measure should she use?

when we want to measure behavior by its form we use

Your client is engaging in vocal stereotype behavior. You decided to provide reinforcement whenever the patient is not engaging in that behavior. That is an example of

Hanan is always playing with her hair. The teacher told her to put her hand on her lap and she reinforced her every time she sees her putting her hand on her lab. This is an example of

What is the most appropriate procedure for the behavior that put the client and others at risk?

When Lama raised her hand during class the teacher gave her candy. She enjoyed it, but she did not raise her hand more often after that. The candy is an example of

Delivering the reinforcer after every 5 trial
An example of…

Delivering the reinforcer after every five minutes is an example of..

……. Is also called the successive choice method

A therapist ask her client to point at the picture and gave her a 1-second time delay before promoting the correct response then 2 seconds then 3 s. This is an example of…

A group of responses with the same effect on the environment ( the same function) is called…

crawling is an example of…

Self- initiation is an example of…

Increase effectiveness of stimulus as a reinforcer..

A child screams every time the teacher presents the math sheet to him and asks him to solve the math problems. The function of the screaming is most likely to be…

Sleep deprivation is an example of…

 Reinforcement is delivered on average every 2 minutes in which behavior occurs. What reinforcement schedule is this Reinforcement is delivered on average every 2 minutes in which behavior occurs. What reinforcement schedule is this?

Reinforcing gradual change in behavior is known as which of the following?

RBTs should record session notes after every session. Why are session notes useful?

If you were deprived of water and wanted some, but no water was available, what would be present and what would not be present?

Another way to describe the intensity of behavior, would be to describe the __?

You are starting with a new client on Thursday who has a history of pulling hair and grabbing jewelry. All of the following represent antecedent interventions you can implement EXCEPT__?

Which of the following is not true about stimulus preference assessments?

Withholding a snack or an item from a client until the session in order to increase the value of that snack or item is called?

Differential reinforcement is vital in Applied Behavior Analysis. What does differential reinforcement teach?

Recently, your client is eloping from the table when presented with a difficult task demand. The client will run to his room, scream, slam the door, and lock the door. The client’s dad took the lock off the door. Now, your client cannot lock his door anymore. The dad taking the lock off the door is what type of intervention?

How would you describe the variability of the data for sessions 4-7

Which of the following situations would most likely NOT require a crisis/emergency protocol?

This type of basic reinforcement schedule is most commonly referred as the “ slot machine effect”

Which of the following is not considered an antecedent to a behavior?

Money would be considered a type of………, while food would be considered a type of……

What of the following is NOT one of the four functions of the behavior?

If you are planning to take latency data, which would be the most appropriate tool to use?

Which type of basic reinforcement schedule is represented continuous reinforcement?

when using an intermittent schedule of reinforcement, reinforcers should be delivered after….

which of the following would not be considered a gift?

Based on the interval data below, what percentage of intervals did your clients engage in elopement behavior?

The breakdown of a task into its components and steps 

The most common form of graph used in ABA is..

Which antecedent increases or decreases the value of a consequence?

Starting with the least intrusive prompt referred to as which of the following?

Walaa has been working with a client for a year, lately, the mother had been complaining about how he always wants to buy expensive toys, but the family can’t afford that. Walaa decided to take him to the toy store on his birthday and tell him to buy whatever he wants.

Escape, attention, tangible, sensory describe what?

 What verbal operant refers to asking for or requesting things, is under the control of an MO, and is maintained by specific reinforcement (i.e., the things the person is requesting)?

Farah says “come play with me!” and her little brother, Bader, repeats “come play with me!” This is an example of..

Procedure in which reinforcement is delivered dependent on the absence of the target behavior

Zahraa put out three pictures: a toy , lion and a care. The toy and the lion pictures were black and white, and the car is in color.Zahraa asks Khalid to “Touch the care” what type of prompt is this?

Layla said to Adam “Do your homework.” She then started a timer. When Adam picked up his pencil and started doing his homework, Layla stopped the timer and recorded the time displayed on it. What type of data collection is Layla taking?

Every five minutes, Dana looks at his client and records whether or not she is currently engaging in self-stimulatory behaviors right at that time. What type of data is he collecting?

Salma say’s to her client ,”Put the toys back on box.”She starts a timer. As soon as the client finishes making the bed, Salma stops the timer.Salma records the time deplayed on it. What type of data is Salma collecting

Rakan tells Amal to touch her head. He taps her elbow upwards, and she lifts her arm and touches her head. What type of prompt did Rakan provide?

The primary difference between conditioned and unconditioned reinforcers is that..

You can reward a person but you reinforce

Abdulrahman’sBCBA is implementing an FI-DRO to omit Sara’s screaming behavior. He sets the FI-DRO interval at 2 minutes. At the end of the fixed interval if Sara has engaged in zero occurrences of screaming during the interval he is delivered reinforcement in the form of social praise. This is an example of

Rahaf BCBA is implementing an FI-DRO to omit Omar kicking behavior. She sets the VM-DRO interval at 2 minutes. At the end of the fixed interval if Omar is not engaging in kicking behavior she is delivered reinforcement in the form of access to tangibles. This is an example of

started swearing because he wants to receive attention and he wants his peers to laugh. The teacher taught him to tell jokes and he stopped swearing because he was receiving the same attention when he was joking. This an example of

When Ahmed wants to leave his seat he usually cries. The teacher taught him to give her the (I need a break) card. This is an example of

Miss Ruba wants her students to stop calling out answers. She decides she will not reinforce students calling out. In her situation, this means that if a student calls out she will not provide them with any attention, including reminders not to call out. She is going to reinforce the alternative behavior of raising your hand. This is an example of

…….prompt Also known as hand-over-hand assistance and is considered the most intrusive prompt.

Giving a verbal cue, such as the beginning sound of the answer, and/or giving the direction more than once.

Placing the correct response closest to the learner or in a manner that assists in giving information about the answer is referred to as which of the following?

Shaymaa is working with her client, Zaid who is learning to ask for the bathroom. Shaymaa, being an experienced therapist, knows that mastering just one example of a skill does not mean she’s done! With the help of Tom’s family, she establishes opportunities for Zaid to practice requesting the bathroom in a variety of settings, with multiple caregivers, and establishes routine “checkups” to assess whether the skill is maintained over time.

-Samar playing with her toys in her room. Holding one of her stuffed animal dolls, he looks at it and says “lion!”
Which elementary verbal operant does this scenario most likely describe?

A teacher asks her students to complete 20 math problems during class, but she does not have time to grade them immediately. She collected the papers and started grading them the next day. This is an example of

This assessment is not trial-based and instead involves observing the client while they move around some environment (such as their bedroom, or living room) while making note of what items they engage with freely and for how long. At the end of the assessment, the items are ranked based on the total amount of time the client spent engaged with that item.

Which of the following is an example of DISCONTINUOUS data collection

Sara sees a Fresh cookie is available at the shop and Cookies have typically been available in the past when Sara sees a sign for cookies.

What type of antecedent is the sight of the gas station sign?

A Counting how many times the patient hit himself is an example?

lid writes a very brief series of steps down for Ahmed to memorize and implement as he learns how to swim. He begins by having Ahmed master the first step, and then introduces the second step. After the second, he introduces the third. He continues until all steps are mastered, from first to last, at which point Ahmed has learned how to swim! He repeats this process until Ahmed became a professional swimmer.

Samer is really hungry. He looks up at his teacher and says “Can I have some Food?” She hands him a snack

In terms of Tom saying “Can I have some food?”, what type of verbal operant does this scenario most closely resemble?

Sitting alone in his bedroom, Yaser will often line up blocks over and over again. When they are perfectly lined up, he will often flap his hands repetitively while visually inspecting the blocks. Yaser can’t speak, so we are unable to ask him why he is engaging in this behavior. A behavior analyst has been contracted by Yaser’s mother to investigate the function of this and other behaviors.

Fatima just learned how to drive. When she saw the red light she pressed the gas it took her one minute to stop the car. It was too late and she had to press hard on the gas to stop. The time Fatima took from seeing the red light until she stopped is called?

Which of the following is one of the criteria for an operational definition of behavior?

Raya gets a candy every time she says “I want a cookie!.” In the presence of the appropriate motivating operations (hunger), Raya’s rate of saying “candy” increases dramatically. Over time, when she is hungry, her likelihood of saying “candy” increases substantially. What is this example of?

While working with an adult client with a developmental delay, Sumya writes a task analysis to help the client learn to make a cup of coffee, their favorite drink, independently. she writes down each step and begins teaching each step all at once.

What type of task analysis teaching format is this?

Which of the following is  NOT  a criterion for an operational definition of behavior?

Tamer is working with a client who has expressed concern about how much he eats and his overall weight gain. Tim notices that his client takes bites rather quickly, and begins to measure the time from the end of one bite until the beginning of another bite.
What type of measurement is the duration from the end of one behavior until another instance of that same behavior?

After a hard day’s work, Rayan is excited to go home and watch some TV She grabs the TV remote, hits the “power” button, and nothing happens. She hits the button a few more times, and still, nothing happens. The remote is either busted, or the battery is dead. Rayan begins to quickly hit the power button again and sighs out of frustration.

What type of consequence for the behavior of hitting the power button does this example most closely exemplify?

A therapist counts the number of times the client picks his nose during 1v hour session.

Later, for some peculiar reason, he divides the total count of nose-picking by the session length (in minutes).

What type of data is Sam calculating?

What are the THREE basic, measurable dimensional quantities of behavior?

Which of the following is an objective, concise, clear, and complete response definition?

Gaining attention might involve saying hello, screaming someone’s name, tapping someone on the shoulder, and other attention-getting behaviors. This is an example of

(A-B-C) The three-term contingency refers to

The duration, rate, frequency of behavior without any restrictions is..

Behavior that, once learned, produces corresponding modifications or co-variation in other adaptive untrained behavior referred to as which of the following?

The rate, duration, the latency of behavior of interest prior to manipulation of the environment referred to as which of the following?

When the response itself directly produces the reinforcing consequence. That is, it is not mediated by another person. This best describes

Premack principle is also called

Self-stimulation and .stereotype are examples of…

Items such as stickers, trinkets, school materials, trading cards, and small toys often serve as…

Physical contact (e.g., hugs, pats on the back), proximity (e.g., approaching, standing, or sitting near a person), attention, and praise are examples of..

When the client chooses the item in the multiple Stimulus without replacement assessment the stimulus will be..

Indicates the availability of reinforcement.

Consistently reinforcing behavior changes referred to as which of the following?

Mass trials are represented by which of the following?

What does the term “response latency” mean?

Reinforcers that get their reinforcing properties by combining with another reinforcer are referred to as _________________.

Skinner defined Verbal Behavior in terms of _______________ over ________________.

What does a graph’s trend represent?

Which of the following best describe when a learner earns tickets that are eventually exchanged for a toy?

A learner receiving a toy contingent upon displaying aberrant behavior would most likely occur in which condition of functional analysis?

A learner is provided with a break from demand contingent upon displaying aberrant behavior that would most likely occur in which condition of functional analysis?

Giving the client a 5 minutes break after completing a task is an example of…

Discontinuing the reinforcement of previously reinforced behavior primarily results in a decreased frequency of the behavior, which is known as which of the following..

Extinction should always be combined with…

When implementing a procedure based on extinction, a temporary increase of the targeted behavior might happen. This is known as which of the following

An essential component of time out is ensuring which of the following?

Which type of time-out best describes when the learner is not removed from the environment?

This refers to a condition which the rate , latency , duration or amplitude of response is altered in the presence of stimulus

Behavior continuing following the conclusion of teaching is commonly referred to as which of the following?

Engaging in a the same responses when the stimulus change is known as which of the following?

Any behavior the therapist engages in that increase the likelihood that the learner will respond correctly is know as which of the following?

Which of the following best represents naturalistic teaching?