Practice Exam 1

RBT Practice Exam 1

This is the first of our four RBT practice exam. It includes 20 multiple choice questions along with detailed explanations. These free practice questions will help you prepare for your Registered Behavior Technician certification exam.

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Practice Exam 1 - RBT Quiz

Question 1 of 20

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Jaycee has a goal to independently mand for preferred items. Which of the following would be the most precise mastery criteria for this goal?

10x/session

80% independent across 3 consecutive sessions

100% accuracy

All of the above

2 / 20

Sheila is working with a 3-year-old boy. He enjoys playing with toy dinosaurs, so she brings a bag full of toy dinosaurs to her session and allows him to play with them when he earns 5 tokens for following his rules. Toy dinosaurs would be a:

Generalized conditioned reinforcer

Conditioned reinforcer

Primary reinforcer

Unconditioned reinforcer

3 / 20

Your supervisor asks you to take duration data on your learner’s behavior. What does this mean?

Recording the number of times your learner engages in a behavior

Recording the number of times your learner engages in a behavior during a specified duration of time

Recording the total amount of time your learner engages in a behavior

Recording the time from the onset of the SD to the start of your learner engaging in a behavior

4 / 20

Response latency is to as whole interval recording is to .

Continuous measurement; Discontinuous measurement

Permanent product recording; Momentary time sampling

Discontinuous measurement; Continuous measurement

Continuous measurement; Permanent product recording

5 / 20

Julio records interval data for his student’s classroom participation using 5-minute intervals. During the interval from 8:00-8:05 AM, student A participates in the class work for two minutes. Julio records that interval as a ✅ (or yes/+). Assuming he is entering data accurately, what type of measurement procedure must he be using?

Whole interval recording

Momentary time sampling

Partial interval recording

Planned activity check

6 / 20

What is the red arrow pointing to in the following graph ?

The trendline

The legend

The X-axis

The Y-axis

7 / 20

Which of the following is an objective and measurable description of behavior?

Harriet was mean to her friend

Harriet was aggressive toward her friend

Harriet punched her friend’s face with a closed fist

All of the above

8 / 20

What is a baseline measure?

A measurement of the behavior or skill before implementation of the intervention

A measurement of the behavior or skill after the intervention is complete

A measurement of the behavior or skill at each specified interval during intervention

A measurement not commonly used in ABA

9 / 20

When recording ABC data, what information must be recorded? Choose the best response.

The setting events, the function of the behavior, and the behavior’s consequence

What the behavior looked like and why the learner engaged in the behavior

Who was present and at what time the behavior occurred

What occurred right before the behavior, what the behavior looked like, and what happened right after the behavior

10 / 20

How many items are presented in a paired choice preference assessment?

6-8

11 / 20

In what type of assessment would you record ABC data?

Functional analysis

Descriptive assessment

Skill-based assessment

Indirect assessment

12 / 20

Your BCBA asks you to help him conduct a skill-based assessment (E.g., VB-MAPP, ABLLS) with your shared client. Which of the following best describes how you would conduct the assessment?

Provide the instruction for the skill, then immediately prompt the correct response

Provide the instruction for the skill, do not prompt, but go through error correction if the learner errors

Provide the instruction for the skill, allow your learner to respond, and record data on their response

Provide the instruction for the skill, prompt as needed, and reinforce correct responding

13 / 20

What is the purpose of a preference assessment?

To identify items and activities that are reinforcing to an individual

To identify items and activities that an individual likes

To identify why the individual engages in a particular behavior

To assess skill deficits

14 / 20

Which of the following describes a multiple stimulus with replacement (MSW) preference assessment?

Jane observes her learner and records which toys they play with and how long

Kia offers two toys to her learner and records which one they choose

Lorraine places 6 toys in an array and records which toy her learner chooses. She allows them to play with it for a minute before taking it away and changing the array with new toys

Misha place 5 toys in an array and records which toy her learner chooses. She allows them to play with it for a minute before taking it away and instructing her learner to choose another toy

15 / 20

Your BCBA provides your client’s caregiver with a questionnaire to fill out about the child’s behavior to get more information about what they’re seeing outside of therapy sessions. This type of tool falls under which category of assessments?

Descriptive assessment

Preference assessment

Skill assessment

Indirect assessment

16 / 20

Which of the following is true about a free operant preference assessment?

You present your learner with one item at a time and record their response to it

You present your learner with two items and allow them to choose one, then record which one they chose

You observe your learner in a natural setting and record what they choose to play with

None of these describe a free operant preference assessment

17 / 20

Marlee’s mother gives her a cup of orange juice. Marlee throws the cup and screams. Marlee’s mother says, “What’s wrong? You asked for orange juice!” What was the antecedent in this scenario?

Marlee’s mother providing a cup of orange juice

Marlee’s mother asking her what’s wrong

Marlee asking for the orange juice

Marlee throwing the cup

18 / 20

Operational definitions of behavior should be:

Subjective

Objective

Opinion-based

All of the above

19 / 20

You want to make changes to your own behavior to be healthier. You begin by self-monitoring how often you exercise. During week 1, you record exercising 3x/week and 90 minutes total. What types of measurement did you use?

Duration and rate

Duration and count

Count and latency

Interresponse time and momentary time sampling

20 / 20

Milana wants to know how much time passes between occurrences of her client asking for a break. What type of data would she collect?

Response latency

Rate

Interresponse time

Duration

Your score is

The average score is 77%

RBT Practice Exam 1

Question 1 of 20

Jaycee has a goal to independently mand for preferred items. Which of the following would be the most precise mastery criteria for this goal?

Sheila is working with a 3-year-old boy. He enjoys playing with toy dinosaurs, so she brings a bag full of toy dinosaurs to her session and allows him to play with them when he earns 5 tokens for following his rules. Toy dinosaurs would be a:

Your supervisor asks you to take duration data on your learner’s behavior. What does this mean?

Response latency is to ____________ as whole interval recording is to ____________.

What is the red arrow pointing to in the following graph ?

Which of the following is an objective and measurable description of behavior?

What is a baseline measure?

When recording ABC data, what information must be recorded? Choose the best response.

How many items are presented in a paired choice preference assessment?

In what type of assessment would you record ABC data?

Your BCBA asks you to help him conduct a skill-based assessment (E.g., VB-MAPP, ABLLS) with your shared client. Which of the following best describes how you would conduct the assessment?

What is the purpose of a preference assessment?

Which of the following describes a multiple stimulus with replacement (MSW) preference assessment?

Your BCBA provides your client’s caregiver with a questionnaire to fill out about the child’s behavior to get more information about what they’re seeing outside of therapy sessions. This type of tool falls under which category of assessments?

Which of the following is true about a free operant preference assessment?

Marlee’s mother gives her a cup of orange juice. Marlee throws the cup and screams. Marlee’s mother says, “What’s wrong? You asked for orange juice!” What was the antecedent in this scenario?

Operational definitions of behavior should be:

You want to make changes to your own behavior to be healthier. You begin by self-monitoring how often you exercise. During week 1, you record exercising 3x/week and 90 minutes total. What types of measurement did you use?

Milana wants to know how much time passes between occurrences of her client asking for a break. What type of data would she collect?

Response latency is to as whole interval recording is to .