PEARSON RBT EXAM WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
1. The roles and responsibilities of the
RBT include which of the following?
2. True/False: An RBT can practice inde-
pendently of a BCBA
All of the above
(deliver discrete trial instruction
and incidental teaching, record
data, and implement behavior ...
PEARSON RBT EXAM WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
1. The roles and responsibilities of the All of the above
RBT include which of the following? (deliver discrete trial instruction
and incidental teaching, record
data, and implement behavior in-
terventions plans as written as a
BCBA)
2. True/False: An RBT can practice inde- False
pendently of a BCBA
3. Rate is... the total count per a unit of time
4. Duration is... the time from when the behavior
begins to when it ends.
5. Latency is... the time between the presenta-
tion of a stimulus and the occur-
rence of a behavior
6. Which of the following is a continuous All of the above
recording method? (duration, rate/frequency, and la-
tency)
7. calculate frequency/rate per hour and 60 per hour, 1 per minute
minute for a behavior that occurred 120
times over a 2 hour observation
8. partial-interval recording is... When the behavior must occur at
least once during the interval to
be recorded
9. Whole-interval recording is.... when the behavior must occur for
the entire interval to be recorded.
10. Momentary time sampling is.... when the behavior must be oc-
curring at the end of the interval
to be recorded.
11. Inter-response time is... The time between the end of one
instance of the behavior and the
, PEARSON RBT EXAM WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
beginning of the next occurrence
of behavior.
12. which recording method would you ex- whole-interval recording
pect to use when a target behavior is set
to increase?
13. Which recording method would you ex- Partial-interval recording
pect to use when a target behavior is set
to decrease?
14. true or false? Partial interval recording False
has the tendency to under-estimate the
frequency of a target behavior while
whole interval recording has the ten-
dency to over-estimate the frequency of
the target behavior?
15. Which of the following are examples of Number of broken windows and
"permanent products" that can be used folded shirts
to collect data using permanent prod-
uct recording procedures.
16. True/False: permanent product record- True
ing is one of the lease cumbersome
data recording methods
17. Choose the best operational definition Any instance of the client cry-
for a tantrum ing and hitting himself in the
head with a closed fist which
makes a sound that can be heard
within five feet. Instance must
last longer than 30 seconds and
are separated by 30 seconds of
non-occurrence.
18. Define behavior: The activity of living organisms;
human behavior includes every-
thing that people do.
, PEARSON RBT EXAM WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
19. define environment: the conglomerate of real circum-
stances in which the organism or
references part of the organism
exists; behavior cannot occur in
the absence of environment.
20. List the four functions of behavior: Social positive (attention/ac-
cess), Social negative (escap-
ing), Automatic Positive (sensory
stimulation), Automatic Negative
(pain attenuation)
21. A client gets out of his seat every time a Social negative (escape)
demand is placed. When he gets out of
his seat his teacher says, "Oh you need
a break", and does not follow through
with her demand. This client's out of
seat behavior most likely serves what
function?
22. A client frequently spits. You notice that Automatic negative (pain attenu-
he spits during work times, when he is ation)
on a break, when he is playing with his
favorite toys, during meal times, when
you or someone else is directly en-
gaged with him, and even when he is by
himself. One day mom brings the client
back from the dentist where he had
to get 6 cavities filled. After this den-
tist appointment the spitting stopped.
What function does spitting most likely
serve?
23. Every time his mother removes items Social Positive (attention/access)
from him, a client engages in a tantrum.
Mom tries to ignore him but after
around five minutes mom gives him
back the item she removed and the
tantrum immediately stops. What func-
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