RBT Exam Study Guide
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Reinforcement is what happens when a consequence makes a behavior more likely to happen again. As a technician, you deliver reinforcement exactly as your supervisor's written plan describes. You also collect the data that shows whether it is working.
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Open lesson →Behavior technicians teach skills in two broad ways. In discrete-trial teaching, the adult runs short, planned practice rounds, one at a time. In naturalistic teaching, the adult builds practice into activities the learner already cares about, such as play, art or getting ready to go outside. Both approaches can teach the same skill. They differ in how the practice is packaged. Discrete-trial teaching breaks practice into separate trials that the adult presents and repeats. Naturalistic teaching places planned opportunities inside an ongoing routine or activity, and the reward comes naturally from that activity.
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Open lesson →Some skills are too big to learn all at once. Others don't exist yet in any finished form. And some behavior needs a way to earn rewards that doesn't stop the activity. This lesson covers three procedures for these problems:
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Open lesson →Teaching a new skill often means helping a learner respond correctly, then gradually removing that help. This lesson shows how to tell whether a learner is actually responding to the right cue, and how help is added and faded.
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Open lesson →A skill that appears only at one table, with one person and one set of materials, is not very useful yet. Once a learner starts succeeding, two questions matter:
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