RBT Board Exam: Questions & Answers 2023/2024
update
Which of the following would be best at tracking frequency? a) A stopwatch
b) Your hand
c) Counting in your head
d) A clicker counter - ANSWER D. A CLICKER COUNTER
You are recording how long it takes your client to get dressed in the morning. What
type of dataare you taking?
a) Frequency
b) IRT
c) Duration
d) Latency - ANSWER C. DURATION
Billy's mom gave him a list of items to buy at the grocery store while Billy's mom was
at work.When she returned home, she checked to make sure Billy had bought all of
the items on the
list. What type of data collection is this?
a) Permanent Product
b) Frequency
c) IRT
d) Rate - ANSWER PERMANENT PRODUCT
Your role in a functional assessment as an RBT is?
a) To criticize the assessment
b) To assist with the assessment
c) To conduct the assessment
d) To standy by and do nothing - ANSWER TO ASSIST WITH THE
ASSESSMENT
What is your primary role as an RBT?
a) Treatment planning
b) Preference assessment
c) Parent training
d) Implementation - ANSWER IMPLEMENTATION
Which of the following behaviors is defined in the most observable and measurable
terms?
a) Susie snapper her pencil in half after she incorrectly answered the math problem
b) Susie was angry so she snapped her pencil in half
c) Susie snapped her pencil in half because she has autism
d) Susie's anxiety caused her to snap her pencil in half - ANSWER Susie snapper
her pencil in half after she incorrectly answered the math problem
,You want to decrease the time it takes your client to eat their meal. You are told to
record thelength of time in between bites. What kind of data are you collecting?
a) Duration
b) Total task
c) IRT
d) Latency - ANSWER IRT
What is the difference between frequency and rate?
a) Rate is frequency with a time component added
b) Rate requires duration data
c) There is no difference between the two
d) Rate is more accurate than frequency - ANSWER Rate is frequency with a time
component added
Before you can start collecting data, what is the first thing that should be done?
a) Collect your required materials
b) Define the target behavior
c) Report to your supervisor
d) Select a data collection method - ANSWER DEFINE THE TARGET BEHAVIOR
What type of interval recording underestimates the occurrence of behavior?
a) Partial interval
b) Whole interval
c) Momentary time sampling
d) Frequency - ANSWER WHOLE INTERVAL
Which of the following is a type of discontinuous measurement?
a) Frequency
b) Rate
c) Duration
d) Partial interval recording - ANSWER PARTIAL INTERVAL RECORDING
What is the goal of a preference assessment?
a) Find out what is reinforcing to the client
b) Determine punishers for the individual
c) Identify stimuli that may be motivating
d) Allow the client to choose what they want to work on during session - ANSWER
Identify stimuli that may be motivating
You are teaching your client to say "bubble." Your client says "b" and you deliver
reinforcement. Next time your client says "b" you don't deliver reinforcement.
Instead, you waituntil your client says "bub". You repeat this process and slowly
increase the requirements for
reinforcement up until your client says "bubble." What are you implementing?
a) Shaping
b) Task chaining
c) FCT
d) Punishment - ANSWER SHAPING
,You are trying to teach your client to wash your hands. Your BCBA instructs you to
usebackwards chaining to teach this. What step might you teach first?
a) Turning the water on
b) Putting soap on their hands
c) Drying their hands off with a towel
d) Entering the bathroom - ANSWER c) Drying their hands off with a towel
A student stands up and walks around the room at inappropriate times. You decide
you aregoing to deliver reinforcement on a FI-3 reinforcement schedule for the
student sitting in their
chair. If the student gets up and walks around no reinforcement is delivered. What
type ofprocedure is this?
a) DRI
b) DRO
c) DRA
d) DRL - ANSWER A) DRI
Your client screams for extended periods of time throughout the day. Your BCBA
instructs youto deliver reinforcement any time the client is not screaming. What type
of procedure is this?
a) DRI
b) DRO
c) DRA
d) DRH - ANSWER B) DRO
Linda elopes from the table when presented with a lengthy task. You start functional
communication training with Linda in hopes you can teach her to ask for a break.
Now, whenever Linda asks for a break when presented with a lengthy task, you
provide reinforcement. What type of reinforcement procedure is this?
a) DRI
b) DRO
c) DRD
d) DRA - ANSWER D) DRA
In this type of teaching there is an antecedent, a behavior, a consequence, and a
brief pausebefore the next antecedent.
a) NET
b) FCT
c) Prompting
d) DTT - ANSWER D) DTT
When should you deliver a prompt?
a) After the consequence
b) Before the SD
c) After the response
d) After the SD, before the response - ANSWER d) After the SD, before the
response
, Billy has soccer practice today. When it's time to leave, Billy's dad tells Billy to grab
his soccerbag. Billy complies and grabs his stuff. His dad says "Nice job. Let's load
up the car." In this
scenario, what is the antecedent to Billy grabbing his stuff?
a) Billy has soccer practice today
b) There is no clear antecedent
c) Billy's dad telling Billy to grab his soccer bag
d) "Nice job. Let's load up the car." - ANSWER c) Billy's dad telling Billy to grab his
soccer bag
The process of breaking down a skill into smaller, more manageable components by
doing thetask yourself, or watching someone else do the task, is called?
a) Task analysis
b) Task chaining
c) Forward Chaining
d) DTT - ANSWER A) TASK ANAYSIS
You have been working with your client for two years. Your client's mom tells you
they aregoing out with friends tomorrow and offers to pay you to babysit. If you
accepted, what would
you be violating?
a) Dual relationships
b) Respondinga appropriately to feedback
c) Legal compliance
d) Effective communication - ANSWER a) Dual relationships
Your session takes place during lunch time each day. The client's parents have
started to buyyou lunch and requested you eat lunch with them each day. What is
the best course of action?
a) Eat lunch with the family
b) Politely decline and inform your supervisor
c) Get rid of the client
d) Change the session time - ANSWER B. POLITELY DECLINE AND IMFORM
YOUR SUPERVISOR
During proper discrimination training, reinforcement is available for one response,
but not foranother. Which of the following is an example of discrimination training?
a) Shoe tying
b) You praise your client when they put on their pants independently
c) You tell your client to touch "blue." You deliver reinforcement when your cilent
touches blue, but not when he touches green.
d) Your client has started calling all animals "dogs" - ANSWER c) You tell your
client to touch "blue." You deliver reinforcement when your cilent touches blue, but
not when he touches green.
Which of the following is an example of generalization?
a) You teach your client to make purchases at the clinic. Now, your client is able to
buyhis own lunch at school.
b) Your client will have a conversation with the math teacher, but not any of his other
teachers
update
Which of the following would be best at tracking frequency? a) A stopwatch
b) Your hand
c) Counting in your head
d) A clicker counter - ANSWER D. A CLICKER COUNTER
You are recording how long it takes your client to get dressed in the morning. What
type of dataare you taking?
a) Frequency
b) IRT
c) Duration
d) Latency - ANSWER C. DURATION
Billy's mom gave him a list of items to buy at the grocery store while Billy's mom was
at work.When she returned home, she checked to make sure Billy had bought all of
the items on the
list. What type of data collection is this?
a) Permanent Product
b) Frequency
c) IRT
d) Rate - ANSWER PERMANENT PRODUCT
Your role in a functional assessment as an RBT is?
a) To criticize the assessment
b) To assist with the assessment
c) To conduct the assessment
d) To standy by and do nothing - ANSWER TO ASSIST WITH THE
ASSESSMENT
What is your primary role as an RBT?
a) Treatment planning
b) Preference assessment
c) Parent training
d) Implementation - ANSWER IMPLEMENTATION
Which of the following behaviors is defined in the most observable and measurable
terms?
a) Susie snapper her pencil in half after she incorrectly answered the math problem
b) Susie was angry so she snapped her pencil in half
c) Susie snapped her pencil in half because she has autism
d) Susie's anxiety caused her to snap her pencil in half - ANSWER Susie snapper
her pencil in half after she incorrectly answered the math problem
,You want to decrease the time it takes your client to eat their meal. You are told to
record thelength of time in between bites. What kind of data are you collecting?
a) Duration
b) Total task
c) IRT
d) Latency - ANSWER IRT
What is the difference between frequency and rate?
a) Rate is frequency with a time component added
b) Rate requires duration data
c) There is no difference between the two
d) Rate is more accurate than frequency - ANSWER Rate is frequency with a time
component added
Before you can start collecting data, what is the first thing that should be done?
a) Collect your required materials
b) Define the target behavior
c) Report to your supervisor
d) Select a data collection method - ANSWER DEFINE THE TARGET BEHAVIOR
What type of interval recording underestimates the occurrence of behavior?
a) Partial interval
b) Whole interval
c) Momentary time sampling
d) Frequency - ANSWER WHOLE INTERVAL
Which of the following is a type of discontinuous measurement?
a) Frequency
b) Rate
c) Duration
d) Partial interval recording - ANSWER PARTIAL INTERVAL RECORDING
What is the goal of a preference assessment?
a) Find out what is reinforcing to the client
b) Determine punishers for the individual
c) Identify stimuli that may be motivating
d) Allow the client to choose what they want to work on during session - ANSWER
Identify stimuli that may be motivating
You are teaching your client to say "bubble." Your client says "b" and you deliver
reinforcement. Next time your client says "b" you don't deliver reinforcement.
Instead, you waituntil your client says "bub". You repeat this process and slowly
increase the requirements for
reinforcement up until your client says "bubble." What are you implementing?
a) Shaping
b) Task chaining
c) FCT
d) Punishment - ANSWER SHAPING
,You are trying to teach your client to wash your hands. Your BCBA instructs you to
usebackwards chaining to teach this. What step might you teach first?
a) Turning the water on
b) Putting soap on their hands
c) Drying their hands off with a towel
d) Entering the bathroom - ANSWER c) Drying their hands off with a towel
A student stands up and walks around the room at inappropriate times. You decide
you aregoing to deliver reinforcement on a FI-3 reinforcement schedule for the
student sitting in their
chair. If the student gets up and walks around no reinforcement is delivered. What
type ofprocedure is this?
a) DRI
b) DRO
c) DRA
d) DRL - ANSWER A) DRI
Your client screams for extended periods of time throughout the day. Your BCBA
instructs youto deliver reinforcement any time the client is not screaming. What type
of procedure is this?
a) DRI
b) DRO
c) DRA
d) DRH - ANSWER B) DRO
Linda elopes from the table when presented with a lengthy task. You start functional
communication training with Linda in hopes you can teach her to ask for a break.
Now, whenever Linda asks for a break when presented with a lengthy task, you
provide reinforcement. What type of reinforcement procedure is this?
a) DRI
b) DRO
c) DRD
d) DRA - ANSWER D) DRA
In this type of teaching there is an antecedent, a behavior, a consequence, and a
brief pausebefore the next antecedent.
a) NET
b) FCT
c) Prompting
d) DTT - ANSWER D) DTT
When should you deliver a prompt?
a) After the consequence
b) Before the SD
c) After the response
d) After the SD, before the response - ANSWER d) After the SD, before the
response
, Billy has soccer practice today. When it's time to leave, Billy's dad tells Billy to grab
his soccerbag. Billy complies and grabs his stuff. His dad says "Nice job. Let's load
up the car." In this
scenario, what is the antecedent to Billy grabbing his stuff?
a) Billy has soccer practice today
b) There is no clear antecedent
c) Billy's dad telling Billy to grab his soccer bag
d) "Nice job. Let's load up the car." - ANSWER c) Billy's dad telling Billy to grab his
soccer bag
The process of breaking down a skill into smaller, more manageable components by
doing thetask yourself, or watching someone else do the task, is called?
a) Task analysis
b) Task chaining
c) Forward Chaining
d) DTT - ANSWER A) TASK ANAYSIS
You have been working with your client for two years. Your client's mom tells you
they aregoing out with friends tomorrow and offers to pay you to babysit. If you
accepted, what would
you be violating?
a) Dual relationships
b) Respondinga appropriately to feedback
c) Legal compliance
d) Effective communication - ANSWER a) Dual relationships
Your session takes place during lunch time each day. The client's parents have
started to buyyou lunch and requested you eat lunch with them each day. What is
the best course of action?
a) Eat lunch with the family
b) Politely decline and inform your supervisor
c) Get rid of the client
d) Change the session time - ANSWER B. POLITELY DECLINE AND IMFORM
YOUR SUPERVISOR
During proper discrimination training, reinforcement is available for one response,
but not foranother. Which of the following is an example of discrimination training?
a) Shoe tying
b) You praise your client when they put on their pants independently
c) You tell your client to touch "blue." You deliver reinforcement when your cilent
touches blue, but not when he touches green.
d) Your client has started calling all animals "dogs" - ANSWER c) You tell your
client to touch "blue." You deliver reinforcement when your cilent touches blue, but
not when he touches green.
Which of the following is an example of generalization?
a) You teach your client to make purchases at the clinic. Now, your client is able to
buyhis own lunch at school.
b) Your client will have a conversation with the math teacher, but not any of his other
teachers
