Getting Ready for the RBT Exam?
You could procrastinate by watching cat videos on YouTube... or take a few practice quizzes!
Good luck! All quizzes are inspired from tasks on the RBT and BCBA Competency Assessments and attempt to simulate actual questions you might encounter on the RBT exam.
So, you want to become an RBT!
(a Task Analysis)
That's great news - the field of behavior analysis needs passionate, scientifically-minded, and committed folks who are interested in helping others. But how the heck do you become an RBT ...
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The Matching Law Guy & His Less Loved Contribution to Science
Behavior analysis, like every other science, has a history of abusive practices and pseudoscience. Azrin & Fox's original (and classic) toilet training article uses overcorrection and required participants to stand for an hour following accidents. Rekkers & Lovaas performed transphobic research that was marked with a mere "statement of concern" - but no full retraction, leaving the careless reader liable to miss the "concern." There are a bevy of behavior analysts who have performed shameful research - none the least of which is Richard Hernstein - the guy behind the Matching Law.
Hernstein is famous for two things: one elegant summary of behavior, and the other a disgusting expression of the worst kind of behavior.
The Matching Law is a simple statement that behavior is allocated by an organism proportionate to the reinforcement produced by the behavior.
Herrnstein once made another simple statement, this time concerning heredity: human intelligence ...
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