Question 1

Your BCBA supervisor will conduct an assessment referred to as a ____________ to develop a hypothesis about the "reasons" for a child's problem behavior. In addition, your BCBA supervisor will conduct a skills assessment, such as the ________ to develop skill acquisition programs.

Accepted Answer

Functional Behavior Assessment/ VB-MAPP

Answer

Cognitive Behavioral Assessment/Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

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Emotional Maturity Assessment/Enneagram Personality Test

Answer

Child Intelligence Assessment/Thematic Apperception Test

Question 2

Your BCBA will make decisions based on the ________ you collect within your work as an RBT.

Accepted Answer

Data

Answer

Text messages

Answer

Pens

Answer

Tweets

Question 3

You will receive supervision from a BCBA or BCaBA for _____% of the time, per month, that you provide behavior analytic services.

Accepted Answer

5

Answer

10

Answer

2

Answer

15

Question 4

An observation by your BCBA/BCaBA supervisor will involve a check on the accuracy of your data. This is called an __________ check.

Accepted Answer

Inter-observer Agreement

Answer

On the same page

Answer

Data Consistency

Answer

Accurate data collection

Question 5

As a Registered Behavior Technician, you can expect to receive feedback from _______, ________, _______, and _______.

Accepted Answer

BCBA supervisor, the person you serve, families, administrators (e.g., school)

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Client's peers, parents, babysitters, other RBTs

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School administrators, parents, your friends, scheduler

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BCBA, your spouse, the teacher, the client

Question 6

An observation by your BCBA/BCaBA will also involve a check on how accurately you implement clinical and educational procedures. This is called a _____ check.

Accepted Answer

Treatment integrity or procedural reliability

Answer

An audit of program implementation

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Administrative check

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Inter-observer agreement

Question 7

What is meant by "People First Language"?

Accepted Answer

Putting a person before the disability.

Answer

Talking about a person as his/her disability.

Answer

Speaking before the other person.

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Always being first in a line.

Question 8

What is a stakeholder?

Accepted Answer

The people who are affected by or who have an effect on a specific cause (e.g., services for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder).

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The person who owns the company the RBT works for

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Facebook friends

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The general public

Question 9

Who are the stakeholders with whom an RBT will likely communicate?

Accepted Answer

Family members, school teachers and administrators

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Grocery store cashier and manager

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Police officers and fire fighters

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Neighbors and postal clerks

Question 10

Which is an example of a multiple or dual relationship?

Accepted Answer

Offering childcare to a family that you are also working for as a Registered Behavior Technician.

Answer

Working with a client both in the home and at the clinic during a social group session.

Answer

Training parents to run discrete trials with their child.

Answer

Running into a client in the grocery store.

Question 11

What are two common actions that result in the violation of a client's confidentiality?

Accepted Answer

Talking about a client in a public place and using the client's name. Leaving file folders, with identifiable information out in the open (e.g., your car).

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Seeing a client in public and avoiding direct contact by walking in the other direction. Speaking about a client in a public place without using the client's name.

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Talking to your supervising BCBA about a client in an office with the door closed. Referring to a client while on the phone with your supervising BCBA and using only the client's first name.

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Locking client files in a file cabinet in the office. Talking to school personnel about a client without a signed release of information.

Question 12

For what length of time are you required to maintain client records?

Accepted Answer

7 years

Answer

10 years

Answer

5 years

Answer

1 year

Question 13

With respect to interventions, what is one of your fundamental responsibilities?

Accepted Answer

Committing only to evidence-based practices.

Answer

Doing only what the parents ask you to do.

Answer

Listening to the school teacher and babysitter.

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Working only on what the client likes to do.

Question 14

True or False - it is acceptable to solicit testimonials from the families you serve as a Registered Behavior Technician.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 15

What is your obligation to the Behavior Analyst Certification Board?

Accepted Answer

To provide timely and accurate information.

Answer

Nothing. I'm not a behavior analyst.

Answer

To provide information when it is convenient for me.

Answer

Only to pay my annual fees.

Question 16

What is the operation and the effect of positive reinforcement?

Accepted Answer

Present a stimulus and increase a behavior.

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Remove a stimulus and increase behavior.

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Remove a stimulus and decrease behavior.

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Present a stimulus and decrease behavior.

Question 17

What is the operation and effect of negative reinforcement?

Accepted Answer

Remove a stimulus and increase a behavior.

Answer

Present a stimulus and decrease behavior.

Answer

Remove a stimulus and decrease a behavior.

Answer

Present a stimulus and increase a behavior.

Question 18

True or False: Negative reinforcement is the same as punishment.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 19

A classification of reinforcement that does not require another person to deliver.

Accepted Answer

Automatic reinforcement

Answer

Escape negative reinforcement

Answer

Social positive reinforcement

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Tangible positive reinforcement

Question 20

A preference assessment and a reinforcer assessment are terms than can be used interchangeably.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 21

True or False: The effectiveness of your BIP and Skill Acquisition programs will be linked to your ability to identify and use reinforcers.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 22

What is more reliable, a direct or indirect assessment?

Accepted Answer

Direct

Answer

Indirect

Question 23

Which assessment method requires you to "replace" the stimulus that was selected on a preference assessment trial?

Accepted Answer

Multiple Stimulus with Replacement (MS)

Answer

Single Stimulus Assessment

Answer

Free Operant Assessment

Answer

Multiple Stimulus without Replacement (MSWO)

Question 24

An assessment designed to identify potential causes of behavior.

Accepted Answer

Functional Behavior Assessment

Answer

Ipsative Assessment

Answer

Standardized Video Assessment

Answer

Family Assessment

Question 25

True or False: Continuous data provides you with a "sample" of behavior.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 26

Which of the following is an important reason for collecting data?

Accepted Answer

To drive decision making.

Answer

To engage with the client.

Answer

To keep busy.

Answer

To brag to the parents.

Question 27

Which data collection should be used if you want to measure the length of time a behavior occurs?

Accepted Answer

Duration

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Latency

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Frequency

Answer

Rate

Question 28

True or False: The partial interval recording method requires you to count the frequency of a behavior.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 29

Three recording methods you will use as a Registered Behavior Technician are:

Accepted Answer

Event recording, latency timing and momentary time sampling.

Answer

Digital, electronic and acoustic.

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Video, auditory and written.

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A/B Stereo, X/Y stereo and mono.

Question 30

Which is a device you will likely use when collecting discontinuous data.

Accepted Answer

Stopwatch

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Protractor

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Computer

Answer

Video Camera

Question 31

What is permanent product data collection?

Accepted Answer

Recording tangible outcome of behavior rather than the behavior itself.

Answer

Recording behavior with a video camera.

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Recording data with a pen and paper.

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Recording non-tangible outcome of behavior rather than the behavior itself.

Question 32

Three examples of permanent product data are:

Accepted Answer

Signs of self-injury, completed homework, manufactured goods.

Answer

Partial interval, percentage, rate.

Answer

Frequency data sheet, graph paper, progress report.

Answer

Program binder, Functional Behavior Assessment, Behavior graphs.

Question 33

One main advantage of permanent product data is:

Accepted Answer

It does not require direct observation of behavior.

Answer

The RBT doesn't have to work with the client during a session.

Answer

You can ignore all behavior.

Answer

It's easier to take than other forms of data.

Question 34

What are two reasons for displaying data graphically?

Accepted Answer

To analyze data and to make data-based decisions about progress.

Answer

It's visually stimulating and it looks good in a report.

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To explain the function of a behavior and to report all consequences to that behavior.

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To give the BCBA practice using graphing programs and to provide pictures for the client to look at.

Question 35

What is a Behavior Intervention Plan?

Accepted Answer

A plan based on the results of an FBA that includes comprehensive strategies for changing behavior.

Answer

A plan based on a standardized assessment that includes goals for skill acquisition.

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A plan written by a BCBA for an RBT to improve work performance.

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A plan facilitated by a psychologist to work with a problematic client.

Question 36

Three target behaviors to increase are:

Accepted Answer

Communication skills, language skills, play skills.

Answer

Head banging, screaming, attention seeking.

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Biting, verbal protest and tantrum.

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Self-stimulatory behavior, elopement and aggression.

Question 37

What are the 4 basic functions of behavior?

Accepted Answer

Sensory/automatic, escape, attention, tangible.

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Denial, anger, bargaining, acceptance

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Anger, boredom, excitement, depression

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Medical, value of consequences, apathy, fear

Question 38

What are the types of differential reinforcement procedures?

Accepted Answer

DRO, FMDRO, DRA, DRI, DRL and DRH

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Breaks, candy, 1:1 activity, tablet or computer

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Tangibles, attention, escape and sensory

Answer

Extinction, punishment, positive and negative

Question 39

Which DR procedure is time based?

Accepted Answer

DRO

Answer

DRA

Answer

NCR

Answer

DRI

Question 40

Which differential reinforcement procedure requires you to reinforce behavior that is physically incompatible with the target behavior?

Accepted Answer

DRI

Answer

DRH

Answer

DRO

Answer

DRA

Question 41

What are the 4 variations of Extinction?

Accepted Answer

EXT(sensory), EXT(escape), EXT(attention), EXT(tangible)

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EXT(interval), EXT(frequency), EXT(rate), EXT(partial interval)

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EXT(tantrum), EXT(elopement), EXT(verbal protest), EXT(aggression)

Answer

EXT(DRO), EXT(DRA), EXT(DRH), EXT(DRL)

Question 42

True or False: Crisis and Safety Net plans are necessary only for legal reasons.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 43

True or False: Discrete Trial Training is the only teaching method you will use.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 44

What is NET?

Accepted Answer

Natural Environment Training

Answer

National Education Technology

Answer

Naturalistic Educational Training

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Neutral Emotional Teaching

Question 45

True or False: NET replaces DTT

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 46

True or False: NET and Incidental Teaching may involve prompting.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 47

True or False: The discrete trial training format can be used in combination with a task analysis.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 48

A method of teaching a skill that involves instructing the learner how to complete the last step as the intial part of instruction.

Accepted Answer

Backward Chaining

Answer

Forward Chaining

Answer

Discrete Trial Training

Answer

Total-Task Chaining

Question 49

A method of teaching a skill that involves instructing the learner to complete just the first step as the initial part of instruction.

Accepted Answer

Forward Chaining

Answer

Total-Task Chaining

Answer

Backward Chaining

Answer

Discrete Trial Training

Question 50

True or False. When a prompt is used, it is because the naturally occurring stimulus (e.g., a verbal direction) does not have stimulus control over the target behavior

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 51

When characteristics of a relevant stimulus are modified or exaggerated to increase the likelihood of the occurrence of a target behavior, this is referred to as:

Accepted Answer

Stimulus prompting

Answer

Exaggerated prompting

Answer

Most to least prompting

Answer

Positional prompting

Question 52

A form of prompt in which the learner's responses are guided by written cues such as checklists, scripts, and written instructions:

Accepted Answer

A textual or written prompt

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An auditory prompt

Answer

A gesture prompt

Answer

A full modeling prompt

Question 53

_____ involves the use of selective reinforcement and extinction to generate differential responding to two or more stimuli:

Accepted Answer

Discrimination training

Answer

Programming for generalization

Answer

Prompt dependency

Answer

Programming for maintenance

Question 54

During the "maintenance" phase of an intervention, the following is true:

Accepted Answer

The interventions used to establish the target behavior have been either partly or completely removed

Answer

The intervention is only done in NET

Answer

Prompting is required for a correct response.

Answer

The intervention used to establish a behavior is in effect (e.g., continuous reinforcement)

Question 55

When a target behavior has "generalized", the behavior occurs in the presence of:

Accepted Answer

Novel people, novel settings, and/or with novel materials

Answer

The original teaching materials only

Answer

The RBT that taught it only

Answer

The original therapy setting only

Question 56

A procedure for promoting generalization that involves "varying as many of the noncritical elements of the antecedent stimulus during instruction"

Accepted Answer

Training loosely

Answer

Multiple Exemplar training

Answer

Training strictly

Answer

One exemplar training

Question 57

True or False. Planning for behavior maintenance and generalization occurs at the pre-intervention phase.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 58

Who benefits from the session notes you complete on a session-by-session basis?

Accepted Answer

All stakeholders

Answer

Insurance companies

Answer

Family members

Answer

BCBAs

Question 59

Within your role as a Registered Behavior Technician, reporting suspected abuse or neglect is?

Accepted Answer

Mandated

Answer

Dependent on whether the person being abused wants me to file a report

Answer

Not my responsibility

Answer

Mandated if the family approves

Question 60

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is a law designed to?

Accepted Answer

All of the listed choices

Answer

Protect Personal Health Information (PHI)

Answer

Protect the security of health care information

Answer

Protect confidentiality

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