RBT Exam 2023 Questions and Answers
Three Branches of Behavior analysis - Answer- experimental analysis, behaviorism,
applied behavior analysis
Teaching unnecessary skills may violate: - Answer- learning functional skills
Preliminary analysis competency study - Answer- to assess the correlation between an
individual's performance on a multiple-choice behavior analytic exam and an individual's
implementation of behavior analytic procedures with children diagnosed with autism
spectrum disorder
Determinism - Answer- things happen for a reason, things are related in a very
systematic and functional way, behavior and environment work together
Empiricism - Answer- the practice of objective observation of the phenomena of interest
Repertoire - Answer- sometimes used to refer to all of the behaviors that a person can
do. More often the term denotes a set or collection of knowledge and skills a person has
learned that are relevant to particular settings or tasks
Stimulus - Answer- an energy change that affects an organism through the receptor
cells
Stimulus class - Answer- any group of stimuli sharing a predetermined set of common
elements in one or more of these dimensions
antecedent - Answer- refers to environmental conditions or stimulus changes that exist
or occur prior to the behavior of interest
consequence - Answer- a stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest
respondent - Answer- elicited or brought out be stimuli that immediately precede them.
the antecedent stimulus and the response it elicits form a functional unit called a reflect.
respondent behaviors are essentially involuntary and occur whenever the eliciting
stimulus is presented
Habituation - Answer- if the eliciting stimulus is presented repeatedly over a short span
of time, the strength for magnitude of the response will diminish and in some cases the
response may not occur at all
Operant - Answer- not elicited by preceding stimuli but instead are influenced by
stimulus changes that have followed the behavior in the past
, free operant - Answer- the duration, rate, frequency, etc. of behavior absent of any
restrictions
three term contingencies - Answer- a concept for expressing and organizing the
temporal and functional relations between operant behavior and environments
establishing operation - Answer- A motivating operation that establishes (increases) the
effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a reinforcer.
Abolishing operation - Answer- A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing
effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event.
Pivotal behavior - Answer- A behavior that, when learned, produces corresponding
modifications or covariation in other untrained behaviors.
Speaker - Answer- gain access to reinforcement and control their enviornment through
the beahvior of lsiteners
listener - Answer- must learn how to reinforce the speakers' verbal behavior, meaning
that listeners are taught to respond to words and interact with speakers
echoic - Answer- the stimulus is auditory and the response is speaking
tact - Answer- a type of verbal behavior with the response form controlled primarily by
an immediately prior nonverbal stimulus (an object, action, relation, property)
Mand - Answer- a type of verbal behavior with the response form or topography
controlled by a current unlearned or learned establishing operation
Intraverbal - Answer- a type of verbal behavior with the response form controlled by a
verbal stimulus, with which the response does not have point-to-point correspondences
Point-to-point correspondence - Answer- A relation between the stimulus and response
or response product that occurs when the beginning, middle, and end of the verbal
stimulus matches the beginning, middle, and end of the verbal response.
formal similarity - Answer- A situation that occurs when the controlling antecedent
stimulus and the response or response product (a) share the same sense mode (e.g.,
both stimulus and response are visual, auditory, or tactile) and (b) physically resemble
each other.
Autoclitic - Answer- A secondary verbal operant in which some aspect of a speaker's
own verbal behavior functions as an SD or an MO for additional speaker verbal
behavior.
Three Branches of Behavior analysis - Answer- experimental analysis, behaviorism,
applied behavior analysis
Teaching unnecessary skills may violate: - Answer- learning functional skills
Preliminary analysis competency study - Answer- to assess the correlation between an
individual's performance on a multiple-choice behavior analytic exam and an individual's
implementation of behavior analytic procedures with children diagnosed with autism
spectrum disorder
Determinism - Answer- things happen for a reason, things are related in a very
systematic and functional way, behavior and environment work together
Empiricism - Answer- the practice of objective observation of the phenomena of interest
Repertoire - Answer- sometimes used to refer to all of the behaviors that a person can
do. More often the term denotes a set or collection of knowledge and skills a person has
learned that are relevant to particular settings or tasks
Stimulus - Answer- an energy change that affects an organism through the receptor
cells
Stimulus class - Answer- any group of stimuli sharing a predetermined set of common
elements in one or more of these dimensions
antecedent - Answer- refers to environmental conditions or stimulus changes that exist
or occur prior to the behavior of interest
consequence - Answer- a stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest
respondent - Answer- elicited or brought out be stimuli that immediately precede them.
the antecedent stimulus and the response it elicits form a functional unit called a reflect.
respondent behaviors are essentially involuntary and occur whenever the eliciting
stimulus is presented
Habituation - Answer- if the eliciting stimulus is presented repeatedly over a short span
of time, the strength for magnitude of the response will diminish and in some cases the
response may not occur at all
Operant - Answer- not elicited by preceding stimuli but instead are influenced by
stimulus changes that have followed the behavior in the past
, free operant - Answer- the duration, rate, frequency, etc. of behavior absent of any
restrictions
three term contingencies - Answer- a concept for expressing and organizing the
temporal and functional relations between operant behavior and environments
establishing operation - Answer- A motivating operation that establishes (increases) the
effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a reinforcer.
Abolishing operation - Answer- A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing
effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event.
Pivotal behavior - Answer- A behavior that, when learned, produces corresponding
modifications or covariation in other untrained behaviors.
Speaker - Answer- gain access to reinforcement and control their enviornment through
the beahvior of lsiteners
listener - Answer- must learn how to reinforce the speakers' verbal behavior, meaning
that listeners are taught to respond to words and interact with speakers
echoic - Answer- the stimulus is auditory and the response is speaking
tact - Answer- a type of verbal behavior with the response form controlled primarily by
an immediately prior nonverbal stimulus (an object, action, relation, property)
Mand - Answer- a type of verbal behavior with the response form or topography
controlled by a current unlearned or learned establishing operation
Intraverbal - Answer- a type of verbal behavior with the response form controlled by a
verbal stimulus, with which the response does not have point-to-point correspondences
Point-to-point correspondence - Answer- A relation between the stimulus and response
or response product that occurs when the beginning, middle, and end of the verbal
stimulus matches the beginning, middle, and end of the verbal response.
formal similarity - Answer- A situation that occurs when the controlling antecedent
stimulus and the response or response product (a) share the same sense mode (e.g.,
both stimulus and response are visual, auditory, or tactile) and (b) physically resemble
each other.
Autoclitic - Answer- A secondary verbal operant in which some aspect of a speaker's
own verbal behavior functions as an SD or an MO for additional speaker verbal
behavior.
