RBT Generalization and Maintenance 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which technique involves gradually withdrawing structured teaching supports so a client functions in natural routines without prompts?
- Errorless learning
- Fading (Correct answer)
- Shaping
- Chaining
Correct answer: Fading
Fading systematically reduces the level of prompting to promote independent responding and support generalization.
Question 2: To promote generalization, an RBT teaches tooth brushing using the client's own bathroom, school bathroom, and grandma's bathroom. This is called:
- Multiple exemplar training (Correct answer)
- Discrete trial training
- Incidental teaching
- Stimulus discrimination training
Correct answer: Multiple exemplar training
Multiple exemplar training exposes the learner to many examples of a concept across settings, people, and materials to promote generalization.
Question 3: A skill that was mastered in therapy but is never performed at home without reminders is BEST described as lacking:
- Acquisition
- Response generalization
- Setting generalization (Correct answer)
- Stimulus control
Correct answer: Setting generalization
Setting generalization means the behavior occurs across different environments; without it, skills stay tied to the training context.
Question 4: Which approach involves naturally occurring reinforcement in the environment to help sustain learned behaviors?
- Artificial reinforcers
- Intermittent punishment
- Programming common stimuli
- Natural community of reinforcement (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Natural community of reinforcement
Trapping or recruiting a natural community of reinforcement means the behavior contacts naturally available reinforcers that sustain it without ongoing intervention.
Question 5: An RBT introduces distractors and variations during maintenance checks. What is the PRIMARY reason for this?
- To increase task difficulty for fun
- To assess whether skill is truly generalized and durable (Correct answer)
- To practice extinction procedures
- To reset the reinforcement schedule
Correct answer: To assess whether skill is truly generalized and durable
Adding variability during maintenance probes tests whether a skill is truly robust and generalized versus only rote or context-dependent.
Question 6: Which of the following BEST describes 'programming common stimuli'?
- Using the same prompt across all settings
- Including stimuli from the natural environment in training (Correct answer)
- Punishing errors consistently
- Teaching only one exemplar per session
Correct answer: Including stimuli from the natural environment in training
Programming common stimuli means incorporating items, people, or cues from the natural environment into training to increase transfer.
Question 7: A client who learned to wash hands after using the restroom now also washes hands before meals without being taught. This illustrates:
- Overgeneralization
- Response generalization
- Stimulus generalization (Correct answer)
- Behavioral contrast
Correct answer: Stimulus generalization
Stimulus generalization occurs when the behavior (hand washing) extends to new antecedent stimuli (mealtime) not directly trained.
RBT Generalization and Maintenance 5
Which technique involves gradually withdrawing structured teaching supports so a client functions in natural routines without prompts?