Staff Meeting RBT Questions

When preparing for data collection, an RTB should do all of the following except:

• Identify the target(s) behavior

• Prepare materials prior to start of session

• have 1:1 meeting w/ parent to discuss assessment results/ goals

• Review programming before starting session

BCBA instructs to take data on how many times your client engages in verbal refusal in 30-min intervals. What type of data collection is used?

• Frequency

• Partial Interval Recording

• Count

• Rate

Which continuous measurement procedure measures the time b/w the end of one response to the beginning of the same response.

• Latency

• Whole Interval

• Inter-Response Time (IRT)

• Duration

All of the following discontinuous measurements procedures except:

• Whole interval recording

• Momentary time sampling

• Partial interval recording

• Inter-response time

Which measurement procedure is being used if the observer is recording whether the target behavior occurred at any point in the interval?

• Interval by interval recording

• Partial interval recording

• Whole interval recording

• Momentary time sampling

The observer is recording data on tangible items (completed math worksheets) left over in the environment that can be recorded at a later time. What measurement procedure is being described?

• Event Recording

• Duration

• Permanent product recording

• Tangible count

RBT and patient are seated at the table. The learner engages in elopement each time the RBT presents the instruction "Let's trace". What in the hypothesized function?

• Elopement

• Escape

• Automatic

• Attention

RBT presents 5 items to a patient. The child picks one (bubbles). In the next presentation of the stimuli, the bubbles are taken out of the array and the other items are re-arranged. RBT instructs the patient again to choose one. Which preference assessment is being used?

• Free operant

• Forced choice

• Multiple stimuli with replacement

• Multiple stimuli without replacement

Principle of behavior describing a response consequence functional relation where the response if followed by a stimulus change that results in similar responses occurring more often in the future.

• Replication

• Reinforcement

• Puncishment

• Reflexivity

Sarah cleaned her room and received $5.00 upon completion. She engaged in cleaning her room more often in the future. This is an example of:

• Positive reinforcement

• Punishment

• Negative reinforcement

• None of the above