Which of the following would be the most appropriate report about behaviors observed in a session

Johnny engaged in 4 episodes of hand biting today

The role of the RBT is to

PRovide direct support and education with individuals receiving ABA service

A crisis plan includes which sections

Antecedent interventions, escalation, crisis, post crisis

When deciding what mands to teach you should

Do a preference assessment to determine what motivates your learner

Multiple examplar training refers to _________.

Using many different stimuli to teach a skill to promote generalization.

If the demands of an organization conflict with the BACB's guidelines, practitioners should...

clarify teh nature of the conflict with their supervisior, make known...

Free Operant preference assessments involve

Watching what your learner chooses to do when they can play with anything

In the discrete trial cycle, the prompt should occur when

Simultaneously with the instruction or just after it

What are two things you can do to organize and prepare fr each day ahead of time?

Use a to-do list and keep a calendar to review what is up ahead

Discrimination training requires ...

One response and two antecedent conditions

What does a crisis plan describe?

How to prevent and respond to the crisis behaviors

All of the following are some appropriate ways to respond to feedback EXCEPT

Explain why you did what you did. They may be wrong in their feedback

You can track your learners progress in mands by ....

Taking frequency data and graphing the results to be analyzed over time

What is the first step in creating a behavioral treatment?

Define the behavior and select a measurement technique

What situation might warrant a functional assessment of problem behavior and a behavior intervention plan?

Candace throws items at her peers during class. This happens several times

An operational definition is used for a behavior so that

Two independent observers will agree on occurrences and non-occurances

If a practitioner finds that, due to unforeseen factors, a potentially harmful multiple relationship has arisen, what...

Attempt to resolve with the best interests of the affected person and...

Something you can do to prevent the student from losing motivation in naturalistic teaching is

Change activities at a pace that is just slightly faster than the learner..

James is reaching for a gummy you have in your hand, and he isn't saying "gummy". What is the most intrusive prompt?

model the word "gummy" (echoic prompt)

Which of the following could be a motivating operation

Tommy hasn't eaten today and is very hungry

Complete this sentence: Documentation and record keeping are important to ensure...

accountability, coordination of care between yourself and other supports

Sue's teachers say she isn't motivated by anything. She shows little interest in toys, activities, or food. An ...

Pair toys, food, and activities with the music she loves and then start to, Allow her to listen to music every time she engages in good behavior

Which of the following is deemed acceptable when it comes to avoiding dual relationships

None of the above are acceptable

Which of the following is backwards chaining

Prompting a learner through all steps of washing hands, but allowing them

When you document you should attempt to document only ...

What was observed, not interpretations of what was observed

Which is not a part of the behavior intervention plan (BIP)

How the child feels when the behavior is occuring

The following is an example of which transfer procedure? SD: Point to the cat? R: Child points to cat SD: What is it R:

Listener response to tact transfer

In which of the following scenarios would consent not be required

When advancing to the next target in a program

It is okay to work for a close family member as long as ______

There is no time where it is appropriate to work for a close family member.

Which would be transfer trial: Teacher presents SD with an echoic prompt, student responds correctly so teacher will

Present the discriminative stimulus but fade or omit echoic prompt

Instructors can help facilitate generalization by

Varying the therapy setting, SD, and stimuli

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1
Which type of chaining results in the learner being reinforced after they perform the final step in the chain
Backwards training
Sideways chaining
Total task presentation
Forwards chaining
2
Which of the following would be the most appropriate report about behaviors observed in a session
Johnny has a huge tantrum today and seemed very tired
Johnny was acting up in class when he was asked to push in his chair
Johnny was very upset when Chris pushed him at lunch
Johnny engaged in 4 episodes of hand biting today
3
Outcome recording could be used for which behavior?
Dancing ballet
Writing an essay
Giving a speech
Sitting nicely
4
The role of the RBT is to
Design behavior analysis programs for children with autism
All of the above
Analyze the data that is collected by paraprofessionals
PRovide direct support and education with individuals receiving ABA service
5
A crisis plan includes which sections
Crisis, crisis responses, data collection, diagnosis
Antecedents, escalation, responses, consequences
Antecedents, consequences, medications, responses
Antecedent interventions, escalation, crisis, post crisis
6
When deciding what mands to teach you should
Choose what mands YOU want them to learn first
Always teach them to say "please" after each mand
Do a preference assessment to determine what motivates your learner
Not choose food items since it's distracting to other children around them
7
Behavior analysts adhere to a code of ethics that seeks to protect the
workplace and its policies
secrets of behavior analysis
rights of its consumers
confidentiality of behavior analysts
8
Once pairing has taken place, the teacher can become a __ reinforcer
Non-contingent
Primary
Generalized
Conditioned
9
Multiple examplar training refers to _________.
Using different items when teaching a child to mand.
Using many different stimuli to teach a skill to promote generalization.
Adding a new stimuli every day that the skill is worked on until you reach
Using multiple SD's in tact training.
10
If the demands of an organization conflict with the BACB's guidelines, practitioners should...
contact the BACB and file a written complaint against the organization...
clarify teh nature of the conflict with their supervisior, make known...
contact the BACB and ask that they review the organization's rules
default to the rules of the organization as they take precedence over the..
11
Behavior analysts should always recommend the __ likely to be effective in dealing with a behavior problem
most researched procedure
most restrictive procedures
least restrictive procedures
most often used procedures
12
It is appropriate to discuss clients with which of the following?
Any coworkers at your agency, school, etc.
Anyone in the field of behavior analysis
None of the above
Your family (as long as they understand it must remain confidential)
13
Free Operant preference assessments involve
Providing a field of 3 toys and seeing which one the learner chooses
Allowing a few minutes with each reinforcer then removing and providing...
Watching what your learner chooses to do when they can play with anything
Asking parents/caregivers what the child's preferred reinforcers are
14
In the discrete trial cycle, the prompt should occur when
Anytime before the response
A few seconds after the discriminative stimulus
Just before the discriminative stimulus
Simultaneously with the instruction or just after it
15
What are two things you can do to organize and prepare fr each day ahead of time?
Use a to-do list and keep a calendar to review what is up ahead
Get a good nights sleep and eat nutritious food
Talk over your schedule with coworkers and ask for help prioritizing
Do grocery shopping on weekends
16
Discrimination training requires ...
Two responses and two antecedent conditions
Two responses and one antecedent condition
One response and one antecedent condition
One response and two antecedent conditions
17
A ___ is an employee who is required by the state to inform an investigator of any abuse or neglect
Support staff
LAw enforcement reporter
Mandatory reporter
State authorized witness
18
What does a crisis plan describe?
Emergency preparedness details for your employment
Relaxation techniques for crises, such as deep breathing
How to prevent and respond to the crisis behaviors
Which emergency responders to call during a crisis
19
Leila engages in hand mouthing and is reinforced every time she is engaged in an incompatible behavior. This is...
DRA
DRI
DRO
DRL
20
All of the following are some appropriate ways to respond to feedback EXCEPT
Show that you've listened to your supervisor's feedback by asking questions
Try not to get upset or explain away the feedback
Try to apply what you have learned from the feedback
Explain why you did what you did. They may be wrong in their feedback
21
You can track your learners progress in mands by ....
Taking frequency data and graphing the results to be analyzed over time
Asking the parent how many times they mand at home
Tracking frequency of problematic behaviors
Making an educated guess on how often your learner is manding per hour beca
22
What is the first step in creating a behavioral treatment?
Take baseline data
Decide if punishment is warranted
Write out the plan for the whole team to follow
Define the behavior and select a measurement technique
23
What situation might warrant a functional assessment of problem behavior and a behavior intervention plan?
Candace throws items at her peers during class. This happens several times
David is in high school and memorizes one spelling work per day.
Nate jiggles his foot repetitively when he sits in his high school class.
Kayla things that Sam is mean because he breaks her toys and he blames Kayl
24
Which of the following is not socially mediated?
gain access to items
gain attention
escape
automatic reinforcement
25
What can be used to determine existing nonsocial and social reinforcers
A peer's list of reinforcers
The VB-MAPP
There is no way to determine existing reinforcers
A preference assessment
26
If a behavior technician watch Jimmy for 5 min periods and recorded if he were humming for any part of that period...
Time sampling
Duration recording
Whole interval recording
Partial interval recording
27
An operational definition is used for a behavior so that
Subjective reports can guide the intervention plan
Its operation will be known to the entire team
The problem behavior will decrease in frequency...
Two independent observers will agree on occurrences and non-occurances
28
If a practitioner finds that, due to unforeseen factors, a potentially harmful multiple relationship has arisen, what...
Any of the above
Report to the BACB so it can be legally documented
Attempt to resolve with the best interests of the affected person and...
Immediately cease all services with the client and provide a written reason
29
Something you can do to prevent the student from losing motivation in naturalistic teaching is
Allow frequent breaks
Sing and dance for them
Provide reinforcement for every response
Change activities at a pace that is just slightly faster than the learner..
30
If a Behavior Technician measured the length of time that it took Andrew to respond to someone calling him, she would...
latency
event
inter-trial interval
duration
31
Whenever punishment is going to be used, the client or the person whom makes decisions for the client must ___
Give informed consent
Attend workshops discussing the effective use of punishment
Believe it wil work
Have already attempted positive reinforcement
32
James is reaching for a gummy you have in your hand, and he isn't saying "gummy". What is the most intrusive prompt?
point at the gummy (gesture)
model a part of the word "guh" (partial echoic)
model the word "gummy" (echoic prompt)
Wait a little longer for him to respond (time delay)
33
Which of the following could be a motivating operation
Tommy hit his sister
After Tommy hit his sister, he was sent to time out
Before Suzy called her teacher a name, she felt ignored
Tommy hasn't eaten today and is very hungry
34
Complete this sentence: Documentation and record keeping are important to ensure...
that people are working sufficiently hard
timely payment to Registered Behavior Technician
the health of the people you support
accountability, coordination of care between yourself and other supports
35
When teaching Bob to discriminate boys & girls, his teacher used pictures of exaggerated versions of genders, then...
Least to most prompting
Chaining
Shaping
Stimulus fading
36
Breaking a complex skill into smaller, teachable units is the definition of ...
Backwards chaining
Shaping
Discrimination training
Task analysis
37
Sue's teachers say she isn't motivated by anything. She shows little interest in toys, activities, or food. An ...
Prompt her through playing with toys and she will eventually like it
Pair toys, food, and activities with the music she loves and then start to
Allow her to listen to music every time she engages in good behavior
Limit her food intake so she will be hungry and work for food reinforcers
38
Which of the following is deemed acceptable when it comes to avoiding dual relationships
Babysitting for a client for free
None of the above are acceptable
Going to a client's family party
Babysitting for a client and accepting money
39
Jake yelled when he wanted music turned off and his parents turn it off. One day they decide to ignore the yelling...
Negative reinforcement
Spontaneous recovery
Positive reinforcement
Extinction burst
40
Which of the following is backwards chaining
Prompting a learner through all steps of washing hands, but allowing them
Allowing a learner to open a box of cake mix but prompting all the other st
Demonstrating how to tie shoes until the learner expresses that they are re
Teaching a learner to draw a picture by suing hand over hand prompts for ev
41
Whenever punishment is going to be used, the client or person whom makes decisions for the client, must
attend workshops discussing the effective use of punishment
believe it will work
have already attempted positive reinforcement
give informed consent
42
When you document you should attempt to document only ...
Your analysis of why what you documented happened
Your impressions of the event you are documenting
What was observed, not interpretations of what was observed
As little as possible so what you write cannot be used against you
43
Which is not a part of the behavior intervention plan (BIP)
Target behavior you are trying to eliminate of decrease
Antecedents that may be occurring before the behavior
How the child feels when the behavior is occuring
Antecedent interventions
44
The following is an example of which transfer procedure? SD: Point to the cat? R: Child points to cat SD: What is it R:
Listener response to tact transfer
Imitation to listener response transfer
Echoic to intraverbal transfer
Echoic to tact transfer
45
In which of the following scenarios would consent not be required
When changing program goals
When advancing to the next target in a program
When using an new procedure
When performing an FBA
46
It is okay to work for a close family member as long as ______
There is no time where it is appropriate to work for a close family member.
They do not live close to you
There is no other BCBA in the area
You disclose your relationship to all members of the team.
47
Which would be transfer trial: Teacher presents SD with an echoic prompt, student responds correctly so teacher will
Move on to another verbal operant target
Present the discriminative stimulus with another echoic prompt to ensure...
Present the discriminative stimulus but fade or omit echoic prompt
Move on to another tact target
48
When you observed Sally she kicked 7 times. Your observation was from 1pm to 3pm. Sally's kicking rate per hour is
3.5 per hour
14 per hour
7 per hour
1.75 per hour
49
All of the following are functions of behavior EXCEPT
To gain
To placate others
To gain attention
To escape/avoid
50
Line Graphs can be used for
All of the above
Intensity and latency
Percentage and duration
Frequency and rate
51
Instructors can help facilitate generalization by
Only using one phrase for the SD and the feedback
Using contrived reinforcers
Varying the therapy setting, SD, and stimuli
Having one teacher to make sure the target behavior is well established
52
Hillary has autism and likes to push buttons on her toys over and over. After a while, the batteries die. She stop...
Extinction
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment
Negative punishment
53
Find the best definition for hitting
Any occurrence of touching another person separated by 3 seconds
Forceful contact between the learner's hand and another person
Trying to be top dog in the classroom
Putting a hand on another person with the intention of hurting them
54
The phase change line demonstrates a change in conditions on a graph and is represented by
A solid horizontal line
A line connected the x and y axes
A solid vertical line
A dotted horizontal line
55
Competent training programs and supervised work experiences include all of the following EXCEPT
They must be effectively and ethically designed
They meet requirements for licensure, certification, or other goals
Specific training in occupational therapy practives
They must by competently designed supervisory activities
56
Frequency recording would be appropriate to use for which behavior?
Key Strokes
Humming
Running
Watching TV
57
If reinforcement is delivered after each number or responses listed, which is a VR7
7,7,7,7
3, 11, 7, 7, 4, 10
1,7,1,7,1,7
2,12,3,7,7
58
You can transfer the control of the mand to the motivation operation alone by
Always prompting with the most intrusive prompt so they are always sucessfu
Requiring your learner to mand 100 times a day
Systematically fading your prompts
Prompting least to most
59
Tamara is behind on her work as an analyst and decides she needs to do some work at home tonight. She copies...
No. Anyone who picked up the flash drive wouldn't know how to use it
Yes. It's a security breach
No. Tamara doesn't know who has the flash drive
No. Tamara's loss of the flash drive was accidental
60
How can you tell if an item functioned as a reinforcer?
If the individual smiled while interacting with the item
If it made the individual happy to have the item
If the behavior is actually repeated in the future after receiving the item
If the child appeared to enjoy consuming the item
61
The one time you should violate confidentiality is
When it will benefit the field of behavior analysis
When your supervisor says its okay
When it will benefit other cases
When there is suspected abuse or neglect
62
When Keenan and his mother go to the zoo, Keenan always whines to ride the train. Most of the time his mother says...
she has reinforced his whining on a fixed ratio schedule
she has reinforced his whining on a very thin variable ratio schedule
she has reinforced his whining on a very dense variable ratio schedule
she has reinforced his whining on a continuous schedule
63
Every 10 minutes Jon is rewarded with a gummy if he didn't throw his toys. This is an example of which differential...
DRL
DRO
DRI
DRA
64
Stimulus control is when
A behavior is emitted more often in the presence of a prompt
A behavior is emitted more often in the presence of a non-contingent r+
A behavior is emitted more often in the presence of a operationalized...
A behavior is emitted more often in the presence of a particular SD than...
65
When practitioners believe there may have been an ethical violation by another practitioner, or...
Discussing it with their direct supervisor
Providing documentation of the violation to their supervisor
Contacting the BCAB
Bringing it to the attention of that individual
66
Supervisors must provide feedback to their direct reports every ___
Week
Day
Two weeks
Month
67
The three steps of discrimination training are
Present discriminative stimulus, prompt, reinforce
Review mastered items, present new item, random rotate
Teach in isolation, add distracters, mix in mastered items
Present both targets, prompt, and reinforce
68
Rob is learning body parts and loves frogs. His teacher draws a frog, but leaves out parts of its body. When he points..
it was teaching done during playtime
the reinforcer was directly related to the material being taught
she prompted him right away
the activity focuses on teaching language
69
Data should be graphed
After a treatment is introduced
During treatment
Before a treatment is introduced
All of the above
70
Ratio schedules are based on __ and interval schedules are based on __
The number of responses, passage of time
The passage of time, number of intervals
The number of responses, number of intervals
The passage of time, number of responses
71
What are the 4 functions of behavior
Primary reinforcers, conditioned reinforcers, primary punishment...
Positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, neutral reinforcement...
Access to tangibles, to gain attention, escape, automatic
Access to time, access to items, access to activities, access to individual
72
Behavioral definitions must be both
positive and comprehensive
Observable and measurable
Broad and articulate
impartial and multidimensional
73
Before you can make a hypothesis about the function(s) of the target behavior, you must do all of the following except
directly observe and measure the behavior taking ABC data
do a functional interview with key members of the team
define the target behaviors
tell the parents to skip medication for a day to rule out medication effect
74
When our learner is on a roll with responding, reinforcement should be
continued at current levels or increased
faded out so it doesn't interrupt the flow of the session
given after every correct response
removed immediately
75
All of the following are reasons that the use of electronic communication and social media are more likely to...
Privacy settings on social media are not sufficient to protect PHI
HIPPA encourages people to use paper because it is the safest...
It is easy to send an email to the wrong person
When using social media it is easy to forget that you're communicating...

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