Mock Exam Questions 1

Question 1

The goal of a stimulus preference assessment is to ______

Answer 1

identify objects, people, or activities that may be motivating

Question 2

A behavior reinforced on a continuous schedule would look like ________

Answer 2

A child being given a sticker for each time he raises his hand instead of blurting

Question 3

You need to take data on tantruming behavior. What is the best type of measurement to use?

Answer 3

Duration

Question 4

Putting a big pink sticker next to the start button on the washing machine is an example of __________

Answer 4

Prompting

Question 5

We can say that a skill has been generalized when __________

Answer 5

It’s use is evident in settings and situations other than the training environment

Question 6

When we are thirsty, water quenches that thirst and satiates us. This makes water a __________

Answer 6

Unconditioned Reinforcer

Question 7

A young man with autism is thought to need instruction in communicating with family. Using email is decided upon as the best way for him to do this. He needs to be able to check his email first. Then, he can be assisted to compose correspondence. Currently, the young man needs prompting through almost every step of checking his email and he is able to follow written instructions. What is the best way to proceed?

Answer 7

Task analyze checking the email and provide written prompts, faded over time

Question 8

What are the 3 main components to DTT?

Answer 8

1. Instruction
2. Response
3. Consequence

Question 9

An RBT working in a preschool setting uses the teaching method of keeping highly engaging items in the childrens sight, but out of their reach as a way to evoke verbal engagement about the items, and to cause children to have to ask him for the items. This strategy is called __________

Answer 9

Naturalistic/Incidental Teaching

Question 10

What does the term “extinction” refer to?

Answer 10

Withholding all reinforcement

Question 11

Your clients mother being your best friend is an example of __________

Answer 11

A multiple relationship

Question 12

An RBT implementing a skills acquisition plan should plan for a training session by __________

Answer 12

Reviewing the plan, asking clarifying questions, and gathering all necessary materials

Question 13

If you prompt the client through all steps of a chain except the past step, you are using

Answer 13

Backwards Chaining

Question 14

A child cries every time his mother is in the phone. The mother puts down the phone and hugs the child. The most likely function of the child’s behavior is __________

Answer 14

Access to attention

Question 15

Chaining is the process of teaching the sub-components of a larger task and chaining them together to teach a complete task. The chaining procedure which teaches each step of the chain during each training session is called _________

Answer 15

Total Task Chaining

Question 16

_________ refers to frequency with the addition of a time component

Answer 16

Rate

Question 17

Janelle asks her client to go to the store and buy one loaf of bread, a stick of butter, and a quart of milk. When he returns she checks his shopping bag to make sure he purchased every item on the list. Janelle is using _________

Answer 17

Permanent Product Recording

Question 18

You have been asked to determine the IRT of a behavior. You record _________

Answer 18

The time from the end of one response to the beginning of the next

Question 19

Permanent product procedures would be most appropriate for _________

Answer 19

Checking if a resident of a group home is able to get all of thr groceries on their list

Question 20

Thr most common graph used in ABA is the _________

Answer 20

Line graph

Question 21

Your client has successfully mastered how to place an order for fast food in a training setting where you have set up a menu, counter, and cash register. In order to see if she can perform the necessary skills at a real fast food place you should first _________

Answer 21

Change a critical feature in the training setting, like who is tasking the order

Question 22

Two brothers had a habit of rinsing their dishes after each meal but failed to put them in the dishwasher. Instead, they would put them on the side of the sink. Their parents modeled the behavior of rinsing their dishes and then stacking them in the dishwasher. After 5 training sessions with their parents, the boys were able to complete the entire task of rinsing and loading their dishes. If the parents want this behavior to be maintained, what should they do?

Answer 22

Set up a schedule of reinforcement for task completion

Question 23

Jill is trying to keep a child from picking his nose and wiping his fingers on classmates. Jill requires students to hold a pencil in one hand and an eraser in another hand during their entire social skills lesson. The following procedure describes _________

Answer 23

Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)

Question 24

ABA professionals base their professional practices on _________

Answer 24

Scientific knowledge

Question 25

Jenny is going to collect data on Ellie, a preschooler’s hair twirling behavior. She decides to track 30 second intervals and if Ellie twirls her hair all the way around her finger, Jenny defines that as an incidence of hair twirling. If Ellie demonstrates the hair twirling at any point during the 30 second interval, Jenny marks her data sheet as the behavior having occurred for that interval. Jenny is using _______

Answer 25

Partial Interval Recording

Question 26

If you are prompt fading and you allow a minute to see if the client can do the skill, you are using _______

Answer 26

Time Delay Prompting

Question 27

How often should RBT’s update aggregate data?

Answer 27

After each session

Question 28

When a client is learning a new skill, the ideal schedule of reinforcement would be _______

Answer 28

FR 1

Question 29

Response prompts may be ________

Answer 29

modeling, verbal, physical guidance

Question 30

What would be the most conservative direct, discontinuous measurement to track a child’s engagement during a class lesson?

Answer 30

Whole Interval Recording

Question 31

A one time trial to correctly perform a task or answer a question before an inter-trial pause and the beginning of a new trial is called _________

Answer 31

Discrete Trial Training

Question 32

Having a pictorial graphic of a math problem that illustrates the problem and the answer and then removing the pictorial aspect is an example of what?

Answer 32

Stimulus fading

Question 33

In order to teach discrimination training, a behavior professional must teach a client to __________

Answer 33

discriminate between two or more stimuli

Question 34

In a written Behavior Reduction Plan, antecedent or environmental strategies refers to _________

Answer 34

Manipulating in the environment to prevent or discourage the problem behavior

Question 35

Zoe, an RBT, is working with a client. She has completed a preference assessment and has determined going out for frozen yogurt to be a likely reinforcer for the client. The client typically goes to frozen yogurt every other day. If Zoe wants to begin a skills acquisition plan on Thursday, using frozen yogurt as a potential reinforcer, how might she manipulate the environment to her advantage?

Answer 35

Deprive the client of frozen yogurt Monday through Wednesday

Question 36

If you use a visual schedule with a client, it is what type of prompt?

Answer 36

Visual prompt

Question 37

A child being praised when selecting a pink crayon from a box when asked to do so is an example of ________

Answer 37

Discrimination training

Question 38

Changing the environment by enriching it, is an example of _________

Answer 38

An antecedent technique

Question 39

Molly wants to know how long it takes her client to get dressed after being given the instructions to get dressed. She should use ________ data

Answer 39

Latency

Question 40

Paul is modeling the correct skill for the client, this is called ________

Answer 40

Model Prompt

Question 41

Lizzy, an RBT, is teaching her client to use sign-language to signal for a break instead of yelling when she is frustrated. The student simply has to sign “break.” This is an example of __________

Answer 41

Differential Reinforcement of an Alternative Behavior (DRA)

Question 42

Kevin dislikes the way Amy yells from the other room. She thinks that everyone can hear what she is saying, even though she is far away. In the past, Kevin has answered her, or replied “I can’t hear you.” He has now decided not to acknowledge her yelling from another room at all. He is implementing the behavioral procedure of _________

Answer 42

Extinction

Question 43

You believe a client you are working with would find edibles reinforcing. They have no health or dietary restrictions. You decide you would like to see if they prefer potato chips or fruit and yogurt. You offer a choice of a potato chip and a tube of yogurt at the same time. They select the yogurt. Then you offer the choice of a yogurt and bowl of mixed fruit at the same time. Again they select the yogurt. You have conducted a ___________

Answer 43

Forced choice preferrence assessment

Question 44

Schedules of reinforcement can be both continuous or it is intermittent. Behavior on ________ schedules of reinforcement is the most difficult behavior to extinguish

Answer 44

Intermittent

Question 45

Sally prompts a client by pointing to the correct answer. This is called _________

Answer 45

Gestural Prompt