RBT Practice Exam 2 | Test Your ABA Skills

This is our second free Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) practice exam, packed with 20 carefully crafted, challenging questions that mirror the real test format. Each question comes with a detailed explanation to help you understand the concepts and improve your accuracy.

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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?

100% accuracy

10x/session

80% independent across 3 consecutive sessions

All of the above

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:

Conditioned reinforcer

Primary reinforcer

Unconditioned reinforcer

Generalized conditioned reinforcer

Your BCBA reviews a new goal with you. They instruct you to use a continuous schedule of reinforcement for this goal. What does this mean?

You reinforce some, but not all, occurrences of the behavior

You provide reinforcement non-contingently

You reinforce every occurrence of the behavior

You do not reinforce this behavior

Your favorite ice cream spot offers punch cards where you can earn a free scoop of ice cream. Each purchase earns you one punch on the punch card. Once you receive 5 punches on your card, you get your next scoop free! What schedule of reinforcement would this exemplify?

Fixed interval

Continuous reinforcement

Fixed ratio

Variable ratio

_________________ reinforcement occurs when a reinforcer is presented regardless of whether the target behavior is demonstrated or not.

Conditioned

Noncontingent

Intermittent

Continuous

Which of the following is not included in a written skill acquisition plan?

Mastery criteria

Materials for teaching the skill

A description of the skill being taught

A description of the behaviors targeted for reduction

Which schedule of reinforcement is used when reinforcement is provided after an average amount of time has passed?

Fixed interval

Fixed ratio

Variable interval

Variable ratio

You are running discrete-trial-teaching to teach your learner a new skill of identifying emotions exhibited on 2D picture cards. You hold up a picture card of a girl smiling and ask “how does she feel?” At what point would you prompt the correct response?

When the learner does not respond

Before the learner responds

After the learner answers incorrectly

A or B

What type of reinforcers get their reinforcing value by being paired with other reinforcers?

Unconditioned reinforcers

Primary reinforcers

Continuous reinforcers

Conditioned reinforcers

Meeka is teaching her client to mand using PECS. Because her client is highly motivated for cheese-it crackers, she uses these to teach the contingency of exchanging the picture icon to receive the crackers. Cheese-it crackers fall under which type of reinforcer?

Conditioned

Primary

Secondary

None of the above

_______________ teaching occurs in a learner’s natural environment, using naturally occurring learning opportunities.

Discrete-trial

Shaping

Incidental

Task-analyzed

Which type of chaining procedure consists of prompting each step until the final step, which the learner then completes independently?

Backward

Cross-sectional

Total task

Forward

You can achieve stimulus control through the process of:

Generalization training

Discrimination training

Discrete-trial-training

Maintenance training

Dana is teaching her client, Joey, to receptively identify body parts on himself. She provides the SD “touch your head.” When Joey touches his head, she delivers verbal praise and a high-five. When given this instruction and Joey touches his nose, she does not deliver praise or a high-five. Dana is conducting:

Stimulus control transfers

Stimulus class training

Discrimination training

Prompt fading

VR, FR, VI, and FI are all:

Types of behavior intervention procedures

Types of teaching procedures

Continuous schedules of reinforcement

Intermittent schedules of reinforcement

Shay is learning to label colors. Which of the following examples would exemplify naturalistic teaching to learn colors?

While sitting at a table in the therapy room, the RBT clears the table and shows Shay a red lego and asks “what color?” Shay responds “red”, then earns reinforcement

While sitting on the living room floor with the RBT, the RBT presents a 2D color card and says “what color?” Shay responds with the color, then earns reinforcement

While playing with legos in the play room, they build a lego tower and the RBT asks Shay to label the color of some of the legos

All of the above are naturalistic teaching examples

When teaching your client to match 2D identical pictures, you start by providing a hand-over-hand prompt so that they are successful. After a few sessions of this, you fade your prompt to partial physical, then to gestural, until your client is successful matching pictures without any prompting. By fading your prompts, you are:

Transferring stimulus control

Thinning reinforcement

Prompting

Generalizing the skill

You lay out 3 small objects and provide the instruction “find the ____.” Which of the following prompts would be the least intrusive in this example?

Hand-over-hand

Partial physical guidance at the client’s wrist

Positional

Partial physical guidance at the client’s elbow

Your BCBA asks you to create a task analysis for tying shoes. What does this mean?

You make a data sheet for tying shoes

You record data on your client’s ability to tie their shoes

You systematically reinforce successive approximations toward an end goal

You break down the skill of tying shoes into several individual steps

Providing assistance following the SD to ensure your learner responds accurately is _________________.

Chaining

Shaping

Prompting

Task analyzing

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