RBT Exam Prep Study Guide: Key Terms and Definitions

RBT Exam Prep 1. Multiple Exemplar Training: Using many different stimuli to teach a skill to promote generalization. 2. Phase Change Line: demonstrates a change in conditions on a graph 3. Solid Vertical Line: Represents a phase change line on a graph 4. 3-Step Discrimination Training Procedure: teach in isolation, add distracters, mix in mastered items 5. Generalization: Can occur through different settings, SDs and stimuli 6. Functions of behavior: Access to tangibles, access to attention, escape/avoidance, automatic 7. Conditioned Reinforcer: anything that is paired with a primary reinforcer 8. Unconditioned Reinforcer: things such as food and shelter that are inherently reinforcing 9. Forward Chaining: teaching a behavioral skill beginning with the first step 10. Backward Chaining: teaching a behavioral skill beginning with the last step 11. Duration: The amount of time/length that a behavior occurs for 12. Frequency/Rate: The number of times a behavior/ response occurs per unit of time 13. Latency: The length of time between an initial instruction and a learner's response 14. Stimulus Control: A situation in which the frequency, latency, duration, or amplitude of a behavior is altered by the presence or absence of an antecedent stimuli. 15. DRA: A procedure in which a behavior that serves as a desirable alternative for a challenging behavior is reinforced while the challenging behavior is extinguished. 16. DRI: a procedure in which a behavior that serves as a desirable alternative for a challenging behavior, and which is incompatible with that challenging behavior, is reinforced while the challenging behavior is extinguished. 17. DRO: is a procedure for decreasing challenging behavior in which reinforcement is contingent on the absence of the problem behavior during or at specific times. 18. Extinction: A procedure in which a behavior that was previously reinforced is no longer reinforced and the rate of behavior decreases 19. Extinction Burst: An temporary increase in behavior that occurs at the beginning of an extinction procedure 20. Abolishing Operation: is a motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus object, or event; makes you want something less 21. Establishing Operation: is a motivating operation that establishes the effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a reinforce; Makes you want something more 22. Task Analysis: Breaking a complex skill into smaller, teachable units 1/2 23. Automatic Reinforcement: Not a socially mediated reinforcement 24. Partial Interval: A interval recording procedure in which an observer notes whether or not a behavior occurred at all during an interval 25. Whole Interval: An interval recording procedure in which an observer notes whether or not a behavior occurs during the entire duration of an interval 26. Momentary Time Sampling: An interval recording procedure in which an observer notes whether or not a behavior occurs at the end of an interval (when the timer goes off) 27. Interresponse Time: Amount of time that elapses between two consecutive instances of a response class 28. Trials to Criterion: Measure of the number of response opportunities needed to achieve a predetermined level of performance 29. Topography: The physical form or shape of a behavior 30. Magnitude: The force or intensity with which a response is emitted 31. Time Sampling: Whole interval recording, partial interval recording, momentary time sampling (occurring at end of sample) 32. Continuous measurement: Recording data on all instances of specified behavior, such as through frequency and duration 33. Discontinuous measurement: Recording data on some instances of behavior, such as through whole-interval, partial-interval and momentary time sampling. 2/2