RBT COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔How to prepare for a session as required by the skill acquisition plan - ✔✔Have all data sheets ready.Have the table paired with preferred items.Have all learning materials ready and available.Have all teach, target, and maintenance cards ready on the table in piles.
✔✔Different contingencies of reinforcement - ✔✔Continuous Reinforcement.Intermittent Reinforcement.
✔✔Continuous Reinforcement - ✔✔Used for teaching new skills. It is when reinforcement is provided after every correct response.
✔✔Intermittent/Variable Reinforcement - ✔✔Recommended once you can fade out prompts effectively. For example, you would provide reinforcement, on average, every 5-7 times.
✔✔Discrete Trial Training (DTT) Procedures - ✔✔A method of teaching simplified and structured steps. Instead of teaching an entire skill all at once, the skill is broken down into teachable units and built up using discrete trials that teach each step one at a time.
✔✔Naturalistic Teaching Procedures (NET) - ✔✔When the activity itself is reinforcing to the learner. The therapist then sets up manding opportunities while teaching across the operants related to the item/activity. Incidental Teaching is also a naturalistic teaching procedure and is often recorded on the same data sheet as NET.
✔✔Incidental Teaching - ✔✔Similar to NET because you're not running trials at a table.May not be motivational based however, you teach in the moment. For example, you're at the grocery store and you say "Go find a yellow fruit", they find a banana, you ask "What's it called" and they tact "Banana".
✔✔Task analyzed chaining procedures [Task Analysis] - ✔✔Commonly used to teach daily living skills like hand washing, tooth brushing, etc. Each step in the task analysis is a 'chain' to teach the entire skill.
✔✔Discrimination training - ✔✔Conditional discriminations are when you teach two concepts at the same time so the learner knows how to discriminate. For example teaching hot and cold at the same time.
✔✔Stimulus control transfer procedures - ✔✔A process in which prompts are removed once the target behavior is occurring int he presence of the discriminative stimulus (SD).Prompt fading and prompt delay are procedures used to transfer stimulus control from the prompt to the SD. 1 / 2
✔✔Stimulus Fading procedures - ✔✔Gradually fading a stimulus (prompt) to obtain independent responses
✔✔Prompt and prompt fading procedures - ✔✔This is Errorless teaching procedures along with Error Correct Procedure
✔✔How to implement generalization procedures - ✔✔Varying the SD or changing therapists so that the student responds to more than one instructor. Teaching at the table and in Natural Environment. For example saying "Do what I do" instead of always saying "Do this" or teaching a student how to answer "What is your age" after they've mastered "How old are you?"
✔✔How to implement maintenance procedures - ✔✔Have they retained the skill?Mastery criteria is generally 3 consecutive 'yes's'. It's important to mix in maintenance tasks with teach tasks to ensure that all learned skills continue to be maintained.
✔✔Assisting with the training of Stakeholders - ✔✔You need to be able to model the procedures and then explain why. It's important to maintain a professional relationship and pair yourself with others so that they will want to learn from you. An example would be to say "We need to do this in order for ______ behavior to decrease".
✔✔Stakeholders - ✔✔Family, Caregivers, Babysitters and other professionals that have a personal stake in the child's life
✔✔Essential components of a written behavior reduction Plan - ✔✔Must have target behavior definitions.Must include any baseline data/graphs.Must list all antecedent manipulations [this includes teaching the replacement behavior].Consequence strategies that are listed in step by step procedures.Must contain a signature from caregiver, agreeing to the procedures.
✔✔Functions of behavior - ✔✔Escape Attention Tangibles Sensory/Automatic
✔✔Interventions based on modification of antecedents such as motivating/establishing operations and discrimintive stimuli - ✔✔To control for escape: Pairing ourselves as a conditioned reinforcer; pairing the table; gradually fading in demands; mixing easy with hard; starting with continuous reinforcement schedule; using the promise reward, etc.
✔✔Different reinforcement procedures - ✔✔Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior [DRA] Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior [DRO]
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