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Behavior reduction in ABA

Reducing behavior accounts for 19% of scored exam questions.

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RBT Exam PrepThe four common functions of behavior
The question
  • What behavior happens?
  • What reinforcement maintains it?
Your assessment role
  • Collect data
  • Document surrounding conditions
Four common functions
  1. Escape from demands
  2. Attention
  3. Access to items or food
  4. Automatic sensory reinforcement
 What keeps happeningA behavior keeps happening. What reinforcement keeps it going?Your roleYou help with functional assessments by collecting data and documenting conditions that may influence the results.EscapeA client pushes work away. You remove the task, and pushing increases. Escape from demands is the function.

Lessons in this chapter

6 lessons, about 5 minutes each · 19% of the exam

  1. The four functions of behavior
  2. Antecedent interventions in ABA
  3. Differential reinforcement in ABA
  4. Extinction and the extinction burst
  5. Positive and negative punishment
  6. RBT crisis and emergency procedures

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Sample questions

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Question 1

A learner calls your name more often after you start responding with conversation. Which function best fits?

  1. Escape from demands
  2. Access to attention
  3. Access to materials
  4. Automatic sensory reinforcement
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B. Access to attention. Access to attention fits because your conversation follows the calling, and calling becomes more frequent.

Question 2

You run a high-probability request sequence; the learner follows the easy requests and receives reinforcement. What comes next?

  1. Give the harder request right away.
  2. Remove instructions, then gradually reintroduce them.
  3. Give reinforcers on a time-based schedule.
  4. Withhold reinforcers after the target behavior.
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A. Give the harder request right away. Give the harder request right away. A high-probability request sequence places several easy requests immediately before the harder request.

Question 3

You give a learner a reward after a period with no hitting. Which procedure are you using?

  1. DRI
  2. DRO
  3. FCT
  4. DRA
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B. DRO. DRO provides reinforcement after a period without the problem behavior. Here, the reward follows a period with no hitting.

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