RBT Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. After the instruction “Begin your worksheet,” 18 seconds pass before the learner writes the first answer. What does the 18 seconds represent?
Interresponse time
Duration
Latency
Rate
2. What determines whether a consequence functions as punishment in behavior analysis?
The consequence is unpleasant to most people.
The consequence reduces the future frequency of the behavior.
The consequence is delivered immediately after behavior.
The person delivering it intends to discourage behavior.
3. Each time a learner completes a task, the technician gives praise and a token. Task completion becomes more frequent. Which process is illustrated?
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment
Extinction
4. An item is selected most often during a preference assessment. What can the technician appropriately conclude?
The item may be preferred, but its reinforcing effect must be shown by an increase in the target behavior.
The item is a reinforcer because it was selected once.
The learner should receive the item regardless of the behavior plan.
The item will reinforce every skill for every learner.
5. A teacher places a worksheet on a student’s desk. The student tears it, and the teacher removes the worksheet. In this ABC sequence, what is the antecedent?
The student tears the worksheet.
The teacher removes the worksheet.
The student avoids completing the task.
The teacher places the worksheet on the desk.
6. In a public lobby, a client’s relative asks the technician for details about the client’s progress. The technician has not been told that this person is authorized to receive information. What is the best response?
Share only the client’s recent successes because positive details are harmless.
Confirm that the client receives services but avoid discussing data.
Give a brief summary if the relative promises not to repeat it.
Do not disclose client information and direct the person to the appropriate authorized contact or process.
7. An observer divides a session into 20 intervals and marks an interval if a behavior occurs at any point during it. Which recording method is being used?
Whole-interval recording
Partial-interval recording
Momentary time sampling
Duration recording
8. A driver fastens the seat belt, the warning tone stops, and faster seat-belt use becomes more likely on future trips. Which process best explains the change?
Positive reinforcement
Stimulus generalization
Negative punishment
Negative reinforcement
9. A learner answers correctly only after the technician demonstrates the response. The plan calls for transferring control to the natural instruction. What procedure directly supports that goal?
Increasing the size of the reinforcer indefinitely
Systematically fading the model prompt
Repeating the model prompt at the same intensity forever
Removing the instruction and waiting for spontaneous responding
10. A behavior plan states that calling out is maintained by adult attention and specifies extinction for that behavior. Assuming there is no immediate safety concern, what should the technician do when calling out occurs?
Provide a brief explanation of why calling out is inappropriate.
Remove the learner’s preferred activity each time.
Withhold attention contingent on calling out while implementing the plan as written.
Offer attention on an unpredictable schedule after each call-out.
11. Which description is the best operational definition of “leaving the work area”?
The learner becomes restless and tries to avoid work.
Both feet move more than one meter from the assigned desk without permission.
The learner leaves whenever the assignment feels too difficult.
Any inappropriate movement away from the desk.
12. A client displays a new, dangerous behavior that is not addressed in the current plan. What should the technician do first?
Design and begin a new intervention based on what seems likely to work.
Ignore the behavior until it appears in several more sessions.
Ask another technician to approve a new consequence procedure.
Follow trained safety or emergency procedures and promptly contact the qualified supervisor.
13. Which sequence most closely represents a discrete-trial teaching opportunity?
Instruction, learner response, consequence, brief pause
Reinforcer, instruction, response, prompt
Learner response, instruction, pause, consequence
Prompt, consequence, instruction, learner response
14. During play, a child reaches toward a container of bubbles. The technician uses that moment to teach an appropriate request and then provides the bubbles. Which teaching approach is best represented?
Time sampling
Response-cost training
Natural environment teaching
Overcorrection
15. After a session, a technician notices that one response was accidentally omitted from the data sheet. What is the most appropriate action?
Preserve data accuracy, correct or document the error according to procedure, and notify the supervisor as needed.
Estimate the missing response so the graph appears complete.
Leave the error unmentioned because a single response cannot matter.
Change nearby data points to make the session total more typical.
16. A technician wants to measure the total amount of time a learner spends crying during a 30-minute session. Which measurement is most appropriate?
Frequency
Latency
Duration
Permanent-product recording