RBT Vocabulary PDF Free Download Exam Terms 2025
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RBT Vocabulary Terms
1. Behavioral Cusp: A behavior that opens access to new reinforcers, environments, or learning opportunities.
2. Stimulus Equivalence: Learner demonstrates untrained relations between stimuli (if A=B and B=C, then A=C).
3. Functional Communication Training (FCT): Teaches appropriate communicative alternatives to problem behaviors.
4. Behavioral Momentum: Persistence of behavior following reinforcement of high-probability responses.
5. Preference Hierarchy: Ranking reinforcers from most to least preferred.
6. Task Interspersal: Mixing difficult tasks with easier ones to increase motivation and decrease frustration.
7. Stimulus Generalization: Behavior occurs under conditions similar (but not identical) to training.
8. Response Generalization: Learner uses variations of a behavior that produce the same outcome.
9. Rule-Governed Behavior: Behavior controlled by a verbal or mental rule, not direct contact with consequences.
10. Contingency Contract: A written agreement defining the behavior to be performed and the consequences delivered.
11. Premack Principle: A more probable behavior can reinforce a less probable behavior.
12. Matching Law: Rate of behavior matches the rate of reinforcement for that behavior.
13. Motivating Operation (MO): Changes a reinforcer’s value and alters the frequency of behaviors reinforced by it.
14. Transitive Conditioned Motivating Operation (CMO-T): A stimulus that makes something else effective as reinforcement.
15. Surrogate CMO (CMO-S): Acquires motivating effects through pairing with another motivating operation.
16. Reflexive CMO (CMO-R): Signals worsening or improvement of conditions, altering behavior accordingly.
17. Behavior Chain Interruption Strategy (BCIS): Breaking a learned sequence to encourage communication or alternative behavior.
18. Schedule Thinning: Gradually increasing reinforcement criteria to maintain behavior with fewer reinforcers.
19. Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA): Identifies antecedents and consequences that maintain problem behavior.
20. Treatment Integrity: How closely an intervention is implemented as planned.
21. Response Cost: Loss of a reinforcer contingent on problem behavior.
22. Restitutional Overcorrection: Repairing the damage caused by the behavior, plus improving the environment.
23. Positive Practice Overcorrection: Repeatedly practicing the correct form of behavior following an error.
24. Differential Reinforcement of Diminishing Rates (DRD): Reinforcement provided when behavior occurs at progressively lower rates.
25. DRO Resetting: The Timer restarts if problem behavior occurs during interval.
26. DRO Interval: Reinforcement delivered for the absence of behavior in a set interval.
27. Chained Schedule: Two or more basic schedules presented in sequence, each with its own SD.
28. Tact Extension: Generalizing a tact (label) to similar but novel stimuli.
29. Echoic Prompt: Prompting by repeating the correct answer verbally.
30. Massed Trials: Repeating the same teaching trial in quick succession.
31. Interobserver Agreement (IOA): The extent to which two or more observers report the same observed values.
32. Treatment Drift: Changes to an intervention over time that reduce its fidelity.
33. Social Validity: How acceptable, relevant, and useful an intervention is judged by stakeholders.
34. Conditioned Punisher: A Previously neutral stimulus that decreases behavior due to pairing with a punisher.
35. Unconditioned Punisher: A naturally aversive stimulus (e.g., pain, loud noise).
36. Establishing Operation (EO): Increases the value of a reinforcer and the frequency of behaviors that get it.
37. Abolishing Operation (AO): Decreases the value of a reinforcer and the frequency of behaviors that get it.
38. Behavioral Contrast: A change in responding in one context due to a change in reinforcement in another.
