Skill Acquisition Practice Test

Teaching Procedures • 37 Questions

Skill Acquisition is the largest section of the RBT exam at approximately 30%. This section tests your knowledge of teaching procedures including reinforcement, prompting, shaping, chaining, discrete trial training (DTT), natural environment teaching (NET), and more. Master this content with our skill acquisition task list guide.

You will need to understand how to implement skill acquisition plans, use various prompting strategies and prompt fading, conduct preference assessments, implement reinforcement schedules, and promote generalization and maintenance of learned skills. Review our ABA mnemonics to remember key concepts.

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Key Terms to Know

Reinforcement

A consequence that increases the likelihood of a behavior occurring again

Prompting

Assistance provided to help a learner perform a behavior correctly

Shaping

Reinforcing successive approximations toward a target behavior

Chaining

Breaking complex tasks into steps taught in sequence

DTT (Discrete Trial Training)

Structured teaching with clear antecedent, response, and consequence

NET (Natural Environment Teaching)

Teaching in natural settings following the learner's interests

Generalization

Transfer of learned skills across settings, people, and materials

Token Economy

System using tokens as conditioned reinforcers exchanged for backup reinforcers

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