RBT exam Questions And Correct Answers
2023
Even though she has a huge exam tomorrow, Mary decides to go out with her
friends. She doesn't get home until 2am and ends up failing her exam. Mary never
stays out until 2am again before an exam. What influences Mary's behavior?
Positive punishment
positive reinforcement
increasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers. A positive reinforcer is any
stimulus that, when presented after a response, strengthens the response.
negative reinforcement
the reinforcement of a response by the removal, escape from, or avoidance of an
unpleasant stimulus
positive punishment
addition of something unpleasant
negative punishment
taking away a pleasant stimulus to decrease or stop a behavior
magnitude
A dad is teaching his son how to hammer nails into pieces of wood. The dad tells his
son that he needs to hit the nails harder. The dad is referring to what aspect of
behavior?
Latency
The sound of a gun firing signals sprinters to start running. What would the sprinters
want to reduce relative to the gun going off and beginning to run?
continuous measurement requires a certain amount of resources
Which of the following aspects is a disadvantage of using continuous measurement?
interresponse time (IRT)
Amount of time that elapses between two consecutive instances of a response class
duration
length of time something lasts
continuous measurement
Measures all of the responses over a given period
what are examples of continuous measurement?
frequency, duration, rate, and per opportunity
discontinuous measurement
Recording data on some instances of behavior, such as through whole-interval, partial-
interval and momentary time sampling.
A basketball oach tells his team that he will buy them breakfast if they take one
charge per game. Once they earn breakfast, then they must take two charges per
game, then three, and so on. What is the basketball coach doing?
fading the reinforcement schedule, and increasing the response requirement
If your supervisor is discussing a client's progress with a parent, and the
supervisor says that the skill acquisition goal is "trending up," what do they
mean?
The skill is improving
2023
Even though she has a huge exam tomorrow, Mary decides to go out with her
friends. She doesn't get home until 2am and ends up failing her exam. Mary never
stays out until 2am again before an exam. What influences Mary's behavior?
Positive punishment
positive reinforcement
increasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers. A positive reinforcer is any
stimulus that, when presented after a response, strengthens the response.
negative reinforcement
the reinforcement of a response by the removal, escape from, or avoidance of an
unpleasant stimulus
positive punishment
addition of something unpleasant
negative punishment
taking away a pleasant stimulus to decrease or stop a behavior
magnitude
A dad is teaching his son how to hammer nails into pieces of wood. The dad tells his
son that he needs to hit the nails harder. The dad is referring to what aspect of
behavior?
Latency
The sound of a gun firing signals sprinters to start running. What would the sprinters
want to reduce relative to the gun going off and beginning to run?
continuous measurement requires a certain amount of resources
Which of the following aspects is a disadvantage of using continuous measurement?
interresponse time (IRT)
Amount of time that elapses between two consecutive instances of a response class
duration
length of time something lasts
continuous measurement
Measures all of the responses over a given period
what are examples of continuous measurement?
frequency, duration, rate, and per opportunity
discontinuous measurement
Recording data on some instances of behavior, such as through whole-interval, partial-
interval and momentary time sampling.
A basketball oach tells his team that he will buy them breakfast if they take one
charge per game. Once they earn breakfast, then they must take two charges per
game, then three, and so on. What is the basketball coach doing?
fading the reinforcement schedule, and increasing the response requirement
If your supervisor is discussing a client's progress with a parent, and the
supervisor says that the skill acquisition goal is "trending up," what do they
mean?
The skill is improving
