RBT Test
Applied Behavior Analysis Correct Answer: The science in which tactics derived from principles of
behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the
variables responsible for the improvement of behavior.
What is the role of a RBT? Correct Answer: Deliver discrete trial instruction, deliver incidental teaching,
record data, and execute behavior plans as written by BCBA
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Correct Answer: The name for a group of developmental disorders.
Autism includes a wide range, or "spectrum'" of symptoms, skills, and levels of disability.
ASD Characteristics Correct Answer: Ongoing social problems that include difficulty communicating and
interacting with others.
Repetitive behaviors as well as limited interest or activities.
Symptoms that typically are recognized in the first two years of life.
Symptoms that hurt the individual's ability to function socially, at school or work, or other areas of life.
Behavior Correct Answer: Human behavior is everything people do, including how they move and what
they say, think and feel.
Does not include bodily movements produced by independent physical force (example- gust of wind)
If a DEAD MAN can do it, it's not a behavior.
All behavior occurs within an environmental context.
Stimulus Events Correct Answer: When a behavior analyst talks about particular aspects of the
environment.
Behavior Measurement Correct Answer: Objective measurement enables scientists to describe the
phenomena they observe in precise, consistent and publicly verifiable ways.
Preventable mistakes in Behavior Measurements Correct Answer: Continuing an ineffective treatment
when no real behavior change has occurred AND discontinuing an effective treatment because
subjective judgment detects no improvement.
Types of Continuous Measurement Correct Answer: Rate/Frequency
Celeration
Duration
Latency
Interresponse
Rate/Frequency Correct Answer: The number of responses per unit of time. One of the most widely
used measures in ABA
Celeration Correct Answer: A measure of how rates of response change over time.
, Duration Correct Answer: The amount of time in which a behavior occurs.
Latency Correct Answer: Measure of elapsed time between the onset of a stimulus and the initiation of
a subsequent response
Interresponse Time Correct Answer: Amount of time between two consecutive instances of a behavior.
Discontinuous Measurement Correct Answer: Percentage
Trials-to-criterion
Measurement by permanent product
Percentage Correct Answer: A discontinuous measurement that expresses the proportional quantity of
some event in terms of the number of times the event occurred per 100 opportunities that the event
could have occurred
Trials-to-criterian Correct Answer: A measure of the number of response opportunities needed to
achieve a predetermined level of performance
Measurement by permanent product Correct Answer: Measuring behavior after it has occurred by
measuring the effects that the behavior produced on the environment
Functional Behavior Assessment Correct Answer: Designed to obtain information about the functions a
behavior serves for a person.
Behaviors can be strengthened by either "getting something" or "getting out of something"
Identifies the reinforcers currently maintaining a problem behavior
Reinforcement Correct Answer: Behavior increases in the future
Punishment Correct Answer: Behavior decreases in the future
Positive Reinforcement Correct Answer: A stimulus is provided contingent on the behavior which leads
to an increase of the behavior in the future.
ADD something that INCREASES the frequency of behavior.
Negative Reinforcement Correct Answer: A stimulus is removed contingent on the behavior, which
leads to an increase of the behavior in the future.
TAKE AWAY something that INCREASES the frequency of the behavior.
Positive Punishment Correct Answer: A stimulus is provided contingent on the behavior which leads to a
decrease of the behavior in the future.
ADD something that DECREASES the frequency of the behavior.
Negative Punishment Correct Answer: A stimulus is removed contingent on the behavior which leads to
a decrease of the behavior in the future.
Applied Behavior Analysis Correct Answer: The science in which tactics derived from principles of
behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the
variables responsible for the improvement of behavior.
What is the role of a RBT? Correct Answer: Deliver discrete trial instruction, deliver incidental teaching,
record data, and execute behavior plans as written by BCBA
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Correct Answer: The name for a group of developmental disorders.
Autism includes a wide range, or "spectrum'" of symptoms, skills, and levels of disability.
ASD Characteristics Correct Answer: Ongoing social problems that include difficulty communicating and
interacting with others.
Repetitive behaviors as well as limited interest or activities.
Symptoms that typically are recognized in the first two years of life.
Symptoms that hurt the individual's ability to function socially, at school or work, or other areas of life.
Behavior Correct Answer: Human behavior is everything people do, including how they move and what
they say, think and feel.
Does not include bodily movements produced by independent physical force (example- gust of wind)
If a DEAD MAN can do it, it's not a behavior.
All behavior occurs within an environmental context.
Stimulus Events Correct Answer: When a behavior analyst talks about particular aspects of the
environment.
Behavior Measurement Correct Answer: Objective measurement enables scientists to describe the
phenomena they observe in precise, consistent and publicly verifiable ways.
Preventable mistakes in Behavior Measurements Correct Answer: Continuing an ineffective treatment
when no real behavior change has occurred AND discontinuing an effective treatment because
subjective judgment detects no improvement.
Types of Continuous Measurement Correct Answer: Rate/Frequency
Celeration
Duration
Latency
Interresponse
Rate/Frequency Correct Answer: The number of responses per unit of time. One of the most widely
used measures in ABA
Celeration Correct Answer: A measure of how rates of response change over time.
, Duration Correct Answer: The amount of time in which a behavior occurs.
Latency Correct Answer: Measure of elapsed time between the onset of a stimulus and the initiation of
a subsequent response
Interresponse Time Correct Answer: Amount of time between two consecutive instances of a behavior.
Discontinuous Measurement Correct Answer: Percentage
Trials-to-criterion
Measurement by permanent product
Percentage Correct Answer: A discontinuous measurement that expresses the proportional quantity of
some event in terms of the number of times the event occurred per 100 opportunities that the event
could have occurred
Trials-to-criterian Correct Answer: A measure of the number of response opportunities needed to
achieve a predetermined level of performance
Measurement by permanent product Correct Answer: Measuring behavior after it has occurred by
measuring the effects that the behavior produced on the environment
Functional Behavior Assessment Correct Answer: Designed to obtain information about the functions a
behavior serves for a person.
Behaviors can be strengthened by either "getting something" or "getting out of something"
Identifies the reinforcers currently maintaining a problem behavior
Reinforcement Correct Answer: Behavior increases in the future
Punishment Correct Answer: Behavior decreases in the future
Positive Reinforcement Correct Answer: A stimulus is provided contingent on the behavior which leads
to an increase of the behavior in the future.
ADD something that INCREASES the frequency of behavior.
Negative Reinforcement Correct Answer: A stimulus is removed contingent on the behavior, which
leads to an increase of the behavior in the future.
TAKE AWAY something that INCREASES the frequency of the behavior.
Positive Punishment Correct Answer: A stimulus is provided contingent on the behavior which leads to a
decrease of the behavior in the future.
ADD something that DECREASES the frequency of the behavior.
Negative Punishment Correct Answer: A stimulus is removed contingent on the behavior which leads to
a decrease of the behavior in the future.
