BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TECHNICIAN (BHT) COMPLETE EXAM STUDY QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS | LATEST VERSION

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TECHNICIAN (BHT) COMPLETE EXAM STUDY QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS | LATEST VERSION 1. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) - ANSWER The application of the principles of behavior to socially significant issues in order to produce meaningful and measurable change. 2. Behavior theory - ANSWER Explains what people do and why they do it by using what can be seen and heard. 3. Behavior - ANSWER Everything that a living organism does. 4. Deprivation state - ANSWER The person cannot have something that they want whenever they want it. 5. Three-Term Contingency (ABC) - ANSWER Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence 6. Fixed Interval (FI) - ANSWER Reinforcement for behavior after a fixed amount of time has passed. 7. Variable Ratio (VR) - ANSWER Reinforcement after the behaviors displayed an average number of times. 8. Variable Interval (VI) - ANSWER Reinforcement after behavior is displayed an average length of time. 9. Intermittent schedules of reinforcement INT - ANSWER Necessary to maintain behavior and get reinforcement on a more naturally occurring schedule 10.Extinction - ANSWER Removal of reinforcement for behavior that is targeted for decrease. 11.Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior DRI - ANSWER Provide reinforcement for the occurrence of a behavior that cannot be exhibited at the same time as the inappropriate behavior. 12.Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior DRA - ANSWER Works a lot like a DRI because they both reinforce the occurrence of behaviors that are alternatives to the problem behavior. the difference is that replacement behaviors does not have to be incompatible with the behavior it just has to be different. 13.Differential reinforcement of other behavior DRO - ANSWER Delivers reinforcement for any appropriate behavior when ever a problem behavior is not displayed during a specific interval of time. 14.Differential reinforcement of lower rates of behavior DRL - ANSWER Used for behaviors that are appropriate but the frequency needs to be reduced. Appropriate duration is set. 15.Differential reinforcement of high rates of behavior DRH - ANSWER Involves decreasing the time for the display of one behavior to the next. Used for behaviors that need to be displayed at higher rates such as task completion or transitioning from one activity to the next. 16.Escape extinction - ANSWER Extinction procedures that involve the opportunity to escape something the individual finds negative or aversive. Works by not letting an individual escape something they do not want to do as in work, homework, or household chores. 17.Spontaneous recovery - ANSWER When a previous behavior was extinct and comes back again after the behavior has not occurred for sometime. Extinction will be put back into place and the behavior might not occur again. 18.Discriminative stimuli - ANSWER Cues that influence operant behavior by indicating the probable consequences (reinforcement or nonreinforcement) of a response. 19.Two reasons for behavior - ANSWER Escape and gain 20.Motivating operations MO - ANSWER An environmental variable that (a) alters (increases or decreases) the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event; and (b) alters (increases or decreases) the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus, object, or event. 21.IDD - ANSWER Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 22.Replacement behaviors - ANSWER Replace less desirable behaviors. 23.Functional Communication Training (FCT) - ANSWER Addressed challenging behaviors by teaching the individual to replace those behaviors with communication. 24.Verbal behavior training - ANSWER Addresses critical communication skills according to the various purposes of language. These are following directions, request, mands, tacts, and social aspects of language intraverbals. analysis - ANSWER Is completed and steps are identified, each is taught and reinforced. 26.Pivotal skills - ANSWER Skills that individuals possess that make it possible or easier for them to learn other skills. 27.Joint attention - ANSWER When two individuals share focus on the same stimulus at one time. 28.Behavioral shaping - ANSWER Used to increase desirable behaviors one small step at a time. When the current levels of functioning an individual possesses are considered, certain behavioral goals may be too difficult to obtain. It is hard to go from point A to point Z without going through everything in between. 29.Differential reinforcement - ANSWER Used to decrease behavior along with increasing certain behavior provided reinforcement for the appropriate behavior. Example would be talking normal instead of yelling. 30.Continuous (CRF) - ANSWER reinforcer follows every response.