BCAT Exam Study Cards, RBT Credential
193Questions and Answers Covers 2024/2025
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Positive Reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWERS Reinforcment: behavior
increases in the future. We don't know if the reinforcer works until the future when
we see increased behavior. Positive: Consequence is an increase of behavior to what
child had
Negative Reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWERS Negative: Take away
Consequence: an increase in the behavior
Positive Punishment - CORRECT ANSWERS Something is added. Behavior
Decreases
Negative Punishment - CORRECT ANSWERS Something taken away. Behavior
Decreases
Reinforcer - CORRECT ANSWERS Consequence that increases behavior
Punisher - CORRECT ANSWERS Consequence that decreases behavior
Unconditioned Reinforcer - CORRECT ANSWERS Unlearned.Increases
frequency of behavior. Think if you need it to survive its unconditioned
Extinction - CORRECT ANSWERS Once you know what the reinforcer is that's
painting that behavior, you eliminate it. Not giving that reinforcer that was painting
the problem behavior. Ignoring is extinction only IF the behavior is to get attention.
If the behavior is avoidance then the extinction would be by following through with
the consequence instead of extinction. also: If the behavior happens but the
reinforcer is not delivered--in sensory stimulation
Condtioned Reinforcer - CORRECT ANSWERS Things that have been learned
that increases the behavior
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Contingency - CORRECT ANSWERS What the behavior requirement is in order
to earn the reinforcer or punisher. 3 term contingency: Antecedent, Behavior,
Consequence
Discriminitive Stimulus - CORRECT ANSWERS Tells the child what they should
be doing.
a stimulus that indicates that reinforcement is available for doing a specific
behavior. S-Delta: signals extinction is available. SDP: Signals punishment is
available for behavior
Stimulus - CORRECT ANSWERS The term usually used to describe a neutral
stimulus. ie first time you told a child to touch a tendon and child didn't know what
that was.
A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react
Stimulus Control - CORRECT ANSWERS the effect that discriminitive stimulus
has on the specific behavior
Response - CORRECT ANSWERS An action or change in behavior that occurs
as a result of a stimulus. Behavior and response are the same thing
Discrete Trial - CORRECT ANSWERS Breaking skills down into small steps, and
teaching one sub-skill at a time, until mastery.
Discrimination Training - CORRECT ANSWERS Reinforce a response in the
presence of a stimulus, but not in the absence of that stimulus.
train to respond to one stimuli and not another
Discrete Trial Training - CORRECT ANSWERS A drill based teaching
methodology. Four Stages: 1. Mass trials-same sd over and over 2. Block Trials-A
block of one sd and a block of another sd 3. Expanded Trials-sd and distraction, then
go back to sd, then increase distraction trials 4. Random Rotation-Asking for
different skills at random. so's are changing
, BCAT Exam Study Cards, RBT Credential
193Questions and Answers Covers 2024/2025
with complete solution(Graded A+)
Natural environment training (NET) - CORRECT ANSWERS Pivitol Response
Training (prt) : Set up opportunities for child to practice skill rather than forcing.
more naturalistic
Fluency Based Training - CORRECT ANSWERS Precision Teaching. Trying to
get as many correct responses in as short a time as possible. Fast and accurate
Generalization - CORRECT ANSWERS when the skill is learned in a training
setting and utilized in a novel setting.
(psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
Maintenance - CORRECT ANSWERS Maintaining the skill over a long period of
time. Can do this through intermittent training and caregiver training
Caregiver Training - CORRECT ANSWERS Promote maintenance and
generalization through this. Tell/Show/Do Methodology, Behavioral training
Premack Principle - CORRECT ANSWERS "First This, Then That"
Using favored activities to reinforce participation in less desired activities.
Preference Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS formal procedures used to
identify highly preferred stimuli (easiest but most unreliable is ask the caregiver).
Reliable: Watch and observe the child and what they play with.
Prompt - CORRECT ANSWERS Things we do to get a correct response. ALL
PROMPTS NEED TO BE FADED ASAP TO AVOID PROMPT DEPENDENCY. 3 different
ones: Erroless learning, Most-to-least, Least-to-most
Error Correcting - CORRECT ANSWERS type of prompts: Most-to-least, Least-
to-most
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