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ABA assessments for RBTs

Behavior assessment covers 11% of scored exam questions: preference assessments, skill strengths and deficits, and functional assessment procedures.

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RBT Exam PrepPreference assessments: multiple stimulus, paired stimulus, free operant
Understanding preferences
  1. Which items does the client prefer?
  2. Assess preferences
  3. Identify possible reinforcers
Conducting preference assessments
  1. Prepare, collect, summarize
  2. Paired stimulus: two at a time
  3. MSWO: selected item stays out
  4. MSW: selected item returns
  5. Free operant: items stay available
 Client preferencesWhich items does your client prefer? A preference assessment helps you find out.Your roleYour supervisor assigns a preference assessment.

Lessons in this chapter

3 lessons, about 5 minutes each · 11% of the exam

  1. Preference assessments in ABA
  2. Skill assessments in ABA
  3. Functional behavior assessment (FBA)

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Sample questions

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Question 1

You run a multiple-stimulus-with-replacement assessment. The learner picks and eats an item. What should you do before the next trial?

  1. Give free access to all the items.
  2. Leave that item out of the array.
  3. Offer only two of the remaining items.
  4. Put an identical item in the array.
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D. Put an identical item in the array. Put an identical item in the array. With replacement, an eaten item is replaced by an identical item after the trial.

Question 2

Your supervisor asks you to play a conversation partner during a social-skills assessment. How should you help?

  1. Take part in the role-play
  2. Run discrete-trial teaching
  3. Summarize earlier assessment data
  4. Run a preference assessment
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A. Take part in the role-play. Take part in the role-play follows your supervisor’s assignment. Helping with role-play scenarios is one way RBTs assist with skill assessments.

Question 3

A teacher gives a worksheet, a learner pushes it, and the teacher removes it. What belongs in your narrative ABC record?

  1. The likely reason for pushing worksheets
  2. The teacher’s interview answers about worksheets
  3. Only the learner pushing the worksheet
  4. Worksheet given, worksheet pushed, worksheet removed
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D. Worksheet given, worksheet pushed, worksheet removed. Worksheet given, worksheet pushed, worksheet removed records what happened immediately before the behavior, the behavior itself, and what happened immediately after.

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