RBT Behavior Reduction Strategies 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A child bites their hand whenever a demand is placed. The RBT stops presenting demands when biting occurs. This most likely:
- Extinguishes the biting behavior
- Negatively reinforces biting by removing the demand (Correct answer)
- Positively reinforces biting with attention
- Has no effect on future biting
Correct answer: Negatively reinforces biting by removing the demand
Removing the demand contingent on biting negatively reinforces that behavior, making it more likely to recur.
Question 2: Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO) delivers reinforcement when:
- A replacement behavior occurs instead of the target behavior
- The target behavior occurs at a lower rate
- The target behavior has not occurred for a specified time interval (Correct answer)
- An incompatible behavior is performed
Correct answer: The target behavior has not occurred for a specified time interval
DRO provides reinforcement after a set interval during which the target behavior was absent, regardless of what other behavior occurred.
Question 3: Which scenario best illustrates Response Interruption and Redirection (RIRD)?
- Ignoring self-stimulatory behavior entirely
- Blocking a self-injurious hit and prompting the client to clap instead (Correct answer)
- Providing reinforcement each time the client sits quietly
- Removing preferred items when problem behavior occurs
Correct answer: Blocking a self-injurious hit and prompting the client to clap instead
RIRD involves physically interrupting the target behavior and redirecting the client to engage in a different response.
Question 4: An extinction burst is BEST described as:
- A permanent decrease in behavior after extinction is applied
- A temporary increase in behavior frequency or intensity when reinforcement is withheld (Correct answer)
- Immediate cessation of behavior once reinforcement is removed
- The reappearance of a behavior after a long absence
Correct answer: A temporary increase in behavior frequency or intensity when reinforcement is withheld
An extinction burst is a temporary spike in the frequency, duration, or intensity of a behavior when reinforcement is first removed.
Question 5: Noncontingent Reinforcement (NCR) reduces problem behavior primarily by:
- Punishing problem behavior immediately after it occurs
- Teaching a functionally equivalent replacement behavior
- Abolishing the motivating operation that maintains problem behavior (Correct answer)
- Blocking access to reinforcement for the problem behavior
Correct answer: Abolishing the motivating operation that maintains problem behavior
NCR delivers reinforcement on a fixed-time or variable-time schedule regardless of behavior, which reduces the value of the reinforcer and decreases problem behavior.
Question 6: A client consistently throws materials during difficult tasks. The MOST function-based intervention would be to:
- Use a response cost by removing tokens after each throw
- Teach the client to request a break using a communication card (Correct answer)
- Increase task demands to reduce escape-maintained behavior
- Ignore all throwing and continue presenting tasks
Correct answer: Teach the client to request a break using a communication card
Teaching a functional communication response (break card) addresses the escape function and provides an appropriate alternative to throwing.
Question 7: Which punishment procedure involves adding an aversive stimulus contingent on a target behavior?
- Negative punishment
- Extinction
- Positive punishment (Correct answer)
- Response blocking
Correct answer: Positive punishment
Positive punishment involves presenting an aversive consequence following a behavior, which decreases the future likelihood of that behavior.
RBT Behavior Reduction Strategies 3
A child bites their hand whenever a demand is placed.
The RBT stops presenting demands when biting occurs.
This most likely: