RBT practice test: Documentation and Reporting, set 5

Set 5 of 6 for content area E, Documentation and Reporting (10 of the 75 scored exam questions). Every answer is explained.

20 questions

Question 1A teacher tells the RBT that having the RBT sit beside the student seems to distract the rest of the class. What should the RBT do?
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D: Pass the concern to the supervisor, who decides on any change. The teacher's concern affects how services are delivered at school, so it goes to the supervisor. The RBT does not change the arrangement on their own.
- A: Moving the student out of class is a major change only the supervisor and team can make.
- B: Reassurance dismisses a real concern.
- C: Changing where the RBT works is a change to how the plan is carried out.
Task E.1 · RBT Ethics Code 2.06 · 40-hour curriculum section F
Question 2A client suddenly starts refusing all tasks at the table. The plan has no guidance for full refusal. What should the RBT do?
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A: Follow what the plan does cover and contact the supervisor. When the plan does not cover a new situation, the RBT follows what the plan does say and seeks direction promptly.
- B: Changing reinforcer amount is a plan change.
- C: Removing demands is a plan change and may reinforce refusal.
- D: Adding physical guidance is an unapproved and intrusive change.
Task E.2 · 40-hour curriculum section F
Question 3A client's caregiver says the client has had a stomach bug for two days but is better now. What should the RBT do?
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A: Note the recent illness and tell the supervisor. A recent illness can still affect behavior and data for a while. Documenting it gives the supervisor context.
- B: Recent illness can still affect the data.
- C: Detailed medical history is not needed.
- D: Changing the plan is the supervisor's decision.
Task E.3 · 40-hour curriculum section F
Question 4A supervisor asks an RBT to change a session note to show more hours than were delivered. What should the RBT do?
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B: Decline, document the request and report it if unresolved. Recording hours that were not delivered falsifies records and can be fraud. RBTs do not take part in fraudulent behavior (Standard 1.01). They raise the concern, document it and take it to the appropriate authority if it is not resolved.
- A: The supervisor's responsibility does not make falsification acceptable.
- C: Falsifying a record even once is a violation.
- D: Keeping a copy does not make the changed note honest.
Task E.4 · RBT Ethics Code 1.01 · RBT Ethics Code 2.02
Question 5A caregiver asks the RBT to add an extra session every week. What should the RBT do?
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A: Tell the caregiver they will pass the request to the supervisor. The amount of service is decided by the supervisor and the organization, often with the funder. The RBT relays the request instead of agreeing or refusing.
- B: Service hours can change; the supervisor and organization decide.
- C: Lengthening sessions also changes the amount of service without approval.
- D: The RBT does not set the amount of service.
Task E.1 · RBT Ethics Code 2.06 · 40-hour curriculum section F
Question 6During a session, a client begins a new form of severe self-injury that is not in the plan. The RBT calls the supervisor but cannot reach them. What should the RBT do?
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A: Keep the client safe and contact the next person in the chain of command. Safety comes first, and urgent issues cannot wait for one person to become available. Organizations have a chain of command, such as a covering BCBA or clinical director, for exactly this situation.
- B: An email in the evening is not timely for new severe self-injury.
- C: Restrictive procedures are used only when they are in this client's documented plan (Standard 2.05).
- D: Waiting leaves an urgent safety issue without direction.
Task E.2 · RBT Ethics Code 2.01 · RBT Ethics Code 2.05 · 40-hour curriculum section F
Question 7An RBT notices that a client's tantrums are higher on Mondays, after weekends at a relative's house. What should the RBT report?
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A: The pattern in the data, with the days it occurs. The RBT reports the observable pattern. The supervisor decides what might explain it and what to do.
- B: Patterns linked to events outside sessions can still matter.
- C: The RBT cannot determine the cause from a pattern.
- D: Recommending changes to visits is outside the RBT's role.
Task E.3 · 40-hour curriculum section F
Question 8Which of these belongs in a session note?
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A: The programs run and the client's responses. A session note records what services were provided and how the client responded, along with details like date, time and location. Opinions and personal matters do not belong.
- B: Personal matters do not belong in a clinical record.
- C: Opinions about caregivers are judgments, not documentation of services.
- D: Diagnosis is outside the RBT's role and not observed.
Task E.4 · 40-hour curriculum section F
Question 9After telling the supervisor about a teacher's concern, what else should the RBT do?
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B: Document the concern and that it was passed on, as required. Keeping a record of what was reported, by whom and when, shows that the RBT passed it on and helps the team follow up.
- A: A routine concern about services is not something to report to the BACB.
- C: A signed statement is not a usual requirement for passing on a concern.
- D: Sharing what the teacher said with others is the supervisor's decision.
Task E.1 · 40-hour curriculum section F
Question 10During a session, an RBT accidentally gives a client a toy right after aggression, which the plan says not to do. What should the RBT do?
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B: Tell the supervisor and record what happened accurately. Honest reporting of implementation errors lets the supervisor interpret the data and support the RBT. It is part of accurate documentation (Standard 2.02).
- A: Adding a reprimand is an unplanned consequence.
- C: Leaving it out makes the record inaccurate.
- D: Adding reinforcement is an unplanned change.
Task E.2 · RBT Ethics Code 2.02 · RBT Ethics Code 3.02
Question 11A caregiver asks the RBT whether to stop the client's medication because it seems to make them sleepy. What should the RBT do?
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C: Suggest they ask the prescriber, and tell the supervisor. Medication decisions belong to the prescriber. The RBT refers the caregiver to that person and reports the caregiver's concern to the supervisor.
- A: The RBT has no basis to interpret a side effect.
- B: Advising a change in medication is outside the RBT's role.
- D: Telling the caregiver to continue is also medical advice.
Task E.3 · RBT Ethics Code 1.06 · 40-hour curriculum section F
Question 12The RBT Handbook gives examples of activities that RBTs may perform, as determined by their supervisor. Which is one of them?
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B: Generating session notes. The handbook lists conducting preference assessments, implementing discrete-trial teaching and generating session notes as examples of RBT activities. Goals, plans and interpretation belong to the supervisor.
- A: Writing behavior plans is the supervisor's responsibility.
- C: Interpreting assessments is the supervisor's responsibility.
- D: Selecting goals is the supervisor's responsibility.
Task E.4 · RBT Handbook p. 16
Question 13Under the RBT Ethics Code, to whom does an RBT direct questions or concerns that caregivers or coworkers have about the RBT's services?
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D: The RBT's supervisor. Standard 2.06 says RBTs direct any questions or concerns that they or others, such as caregivers and coworkers, have about their services to their supervisor.
- A: Physicians handle medical care, not questions about behavior-technician services.
- B: The BACB handles ethics violations and certification issues, not day-to-day questions about services.
- C: Funders pay for services but do not direct the RBT's clinical work.
Task E.1 · RBT Ethics Code 2.06
Question 14Why should an RBT not save clinical questions for their monthly supervision contacts?
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A: They are a minimum, and client issues need answers sooner. The required supervision is a floor. Problems that affect the client's services need direction before they continue.
- B: Supervision includes many activities, not only observation.
- C: Group contacts are interactive and can include questions.
- D: There is no BACB rule requiring daily contact.
Task E.2 · RBT Handbook p. 16 · RBT Handbook p. 17 · 40-hour curriculum section F
Question 15A client has eaten a large lunch right before the session and keeps refusing the edible reinforcers in the plan. What should the RBT document?
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A: That the client ate just before and refused the edibles. Eating just before a session can reduce the value of edible reinforcers for a while (satiation). Documenting the facts lets the supervisor decide what, if anything, to change.
- B: A judgmental label is not objective documentation.
- C: This overgeneralizes from a single situation.
- D: One session of refusal after a big meal does not show the edibles no longer work.
Task E.3 · 40-hour curriculum section F
Question 16An RBT's session note says, "Client met the target for color identification today." The data sheet shows 40% correct. What is the problem?
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D: The note does not match the data. Notes and data must agree. A note that contradicts the data is inaccurate and can mislead the supervisor.
- A: The data sheet records what happened; it should not be changed to match the note.
- B: Adding a percentage alone would not fix the contradiction.
- C: Listing trials would not fix a note that contradicts the data.
Task E.4 · RBT Ethics Code 2.02
Question 17A family tells the RBT that, in their culture, eating with the hand is customary, and they do not want their child's utensil goal. What should the RBT do?
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D: Respect the family's view and ask the supervisor to review the goal with them. Cultural responsiveness means taking a family's values seriously. Goals belong to the supervisor and the family, so the RBT relays the concern quickly and respectfully.
- A: Stopping a goal is a plan change the supervisor must make.
- B: Sending the family elsewhere does not get the concern to the supervisor.
- C: Arguing for the goal disregards the family's values, and goal decisions are the supervisor's.
Task E.1 · RBT Ethics Code 2.06 · RBT Ethics Code 1.07
Question 18An RBT notices that a client's data on a behavior reduction program look perfect: zero occurrences for 10 sessions. But the RBT's own observation is that the behavior still happens. What should the RBT do?
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A: Tell the supervisor that the data and what they see do not match. Data that do not match what is observed are an irregularity. The supervisor can check definitions and agreement.
- B: Adding data is falsification.
- C: Changing the definition is the supervisor's decision.
- D: The RBT's observation suggests the data may be wrong.
Task E.2 · 40-hour curriculum section F
Question 19A client missed four sessions over a holiday break. What should the RBT make sure of?
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C: The missed sessions are documented as the organization requires. Attendance is part of the record. Gaps in services can explain changes in the data, and the supervisor needs to see them.
- A: Copying data for sessions that did not happen is falsification.
- B: Extra sessions are a scheduling and authorization decision for the supervisor and organization.
- D: Missed sessions are a variable that can affect progress, whatever the reason.
Task E.3 · RBT Ethics Code 2.02 · 40-hour curriculum section F
Question 20How should an RBT document a problem behavior in a session note?
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B: What happened before, what the client did, and what followed. Describing the antecedent, behavior and consequence in observable terms gives the supervisor the context to interpret it.
- A: Without context, the supervisor cannot interpret the event.
- C: Reasons are hypotheses for the supervisor.
- D: Feelings are interpretations.
Task E.4 · 40-hour curriculum section F

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Practice test 6

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Questions in this test by task
Task	Questions
E.1 Communicating team concerns to your supervisor	5
E.2 Seeking clinical direction	5
E.3 Reporting variables that affect progress	5
E.4 Objective session notes	5

5 easier, 10 exam-level and 5 harder questions. Each task link opens its study page.

Question 1A teacher tells the RBT that having the RBT sit beside the student seems to distract the rest of the class. What should the RBT do?

Question 2A client suddenly starts refusing all tasks at the table. The plan has no guidance for full refusal. What should the RBT do?

Question 3A client's caregiver says the client has had a stomach bug for two days but is better now. What should the RBT do?

Question 4A supervisor asks an RBT to change a session note to show more hours than were delivered. What should the RBT do?

Question 5A caregiver asks the RBT to add an extra session every week. What should the RBT do?

Question 6During a session, a client begins a new form of severe self-injury that is not in the plan. The RBT calls the supervisor but cannot reach them. What should the RBT do?

Question 7An RBT notices that a client's tantrums are higher on Mondays, after weekends at a relative's house. What should the RBT report?

Question 8Which of these belongs in a session note?

Question 9After telling the supervisor about a teacher's concern, what else should the RBT do?

Question 10During a session, an RBT accidentally gives a client a toy right after aggression, which the plan says not to do. What should the RBT do?

Question 11A caregiver asks the RBT whether to stop the client's medication because it seems to make them sleepy. What should the RBT do?

Question 12The RBT Handbook gives examples of activities that RBTs may perform, as determined by their supervisor. Which is one of them?

Question 13Under the RBT Ethics Code, to whom does an RBT direct questions or concerns that caregivers or coworkers have about the RBT's services?

Question 14Why should an RBT not save clinical questions for their monthly supervision contacts?

Question 15A client has eaten a large lunch right before the session and keeps refusing the edible reinforcers in the plan. What should the RBT document?

Question 16An RBT's session note says, "Client met the target for color identification today." The data sheet shows 40% correct. What is the problem?

Question 17A family tells the RBT that, in their culture, eating with the hand is customary, and they do not want their child's utensil goal. What should the RBT do?

Question 18An RBT notices that a client's data on a behavior reduction program look perfect: zero occurrences for 10 sessions. But the RBT's own observation is that the behavior still happens. What should the RBT do?

Question 19A client missed four sessions over a holiday break. What should the RBT make sure of?

Question 20How should an RBT document a problem behavior in a session note?

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