RBT RBT Skill Acquisition and Training 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: During discrete trial training (DTT), what is the correct sequence of components?
- Discriminative stimulus, response, consequence (Correct answer)
- Response, consequence, discriminative stimulus
- Consequence, discriminative stimulus, response
- Intertrial interval, response, reinforcer
Correct answer: Discriminative stimulus, response, consequence
DTT follows the sequence of SD (discriminative stimulus), response from the learner, and then a consequence (reinforcement or error correction).
Question 2: A learner consistently responds correctly when the therapist holds up a red card but fails when a different therapist presents it. This is an example of:
- Stimulus generalization
- Stimulus discrimination
- Response generalization
- Failure to generalize (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Failure to generalize
When a skill is only performed with one specific trainer and not others, the learner has not yet generalized the response across people.
Question 3: Which prompting strategy involves the therapist physically guiding the learner's hand through the correct response?
- Gestural prompt
- Model prompt
- Physical prompt (Correct answer)
- Positional prompt
Correct answer: Physical prompt
A physical prompt involves the therapist using hand-over-hand or partial physical guidance to help the learner complete the response.
Question 4: An RBT is teaching a child to sort objects by color. The child successfully sorts red and blue items but struggles with yellow. The RBT should:
- Move on to a new skill since two colors are mastered
- Provide additional trials focusing on yellow with appropriate prompting (Correct answer)
- Remove yellow items from the sorting task entirely
- Mark yellow as a mastered target
Correct answer: Provide additional trials focusing on yellow with appropriate prompting
When a learner struggles with specific items within a skill, targeted practice with additional prompting support for those items is the appropriate response.
Question 5: The term 'maintenance' in skill acquisition refers to:
- Teaching a new skill using prompts
- Continuing to perform a skill correctly after active teaching has ended (Correct answer)
- Practicing a skill in the presence of the BCBA only
- Repeating the same trials multiple times in a session
Correct answer: Continuing to perform a skill correctly after active teaching has ended
Maintenance refers to the continued performance of a previously mastered skill over time without ongoing intervention.
Question 6: When using a task analysis, the RBT breaks a complex skill into smaller steps primarily to:
- Reduce the session duration
- Make data collection easier for the RBT
- Allow the learner to acquire each component step systematically (Correct answer)
- Avoid the need for prompting
Correct answer: Allow the learner to acquire each component step systematically
Task analysis breaks complex skills into teachable steps so learners can systematically acquire each component, making the overall skill achievable.
Question 7: An RBT is using 'forward chaining' to teach hand washing. Which step is taught first?
- The last step in the chain
- The middle step in the chain
- The first step in the chain (Correct answer)
- The easiest step regardless of order
Correct answer: The first step in the chain
In forward chaining, teaching begins with the first step of the task analysis, with subsequent steps prompted until the learner masters each step sequentially.
RBT RBT Skill Acquisition and Training 4
During discrete trial training (DTT), what is the correct sequence of components?