Reinforcement Schedules

You are reading a really boring assignment for another class. To motivate yourself to keep going, you promise yourself a piece of chocolate for every ten pages you read. You are using a _______ reinforcement schedule.

• Fixed ratio

• Variable ratio

• fixed interval

• variable interval

A supervisor comes into the workplace to check on her employees every hour and a half. An observer notices that the workers increase their work behavior about 10 minutes before the supervisor arrives and then decrease their work behavior after she leaves. On what type of reinforcement schedule are the workers?

• Fixed ratio

• Variable ratio

• fixed interval

• variable interval

You are selling a product door to door in the hopes of getting as many people to buy it as possible.

• Fixed ratio

• Variable ratio

• fixed interval

• variable interval

You are waiting for a sunny day to go to the beach

• Fixed ratio

• Variable ratio

• fixed interval

• variable interval

A student is looking under rocks for worms

• Fixed ratio

• Variable ratio

• fixed interval

• variable interval

Frequent flyer program where one gets a free flight after a specific number of miles flown

• Fixed ratio

• Variable ratio

• fixed interval

• variable interval

A child who likes to hear theme music from Jeopardy waits by the TV every night at 7 pm

• Fixed ratio

• Variable ratio

• fixed interval

• variable interval

Each time the students complete their homework on time, the teacher rewards them with a piece of candy. Which of the following did the teacher use?

• (FI) Fixed-Interval Schedule

• (VI) Variable-Interval Schedule

• (FR) Fixed-Ratio Schedule

• (VR) Variable-Ratio Schedule

If Anup cleans the bathroom three times a month, his mother gives him an allowance of $20. His mother is using which schedule of reinforcement?

• (FI) Fixed-Interval Schedule

• (VI) Variable-Interval Schedule

• (FR) Fixed-Ratio Schedule

• (VR) Variable-Ratio Schedule

Gordon frequently goes to the racetrack. He bets on every race and sometimes he wins. Betting uses which schedule of reinforcement?

• (FI) Fixed-Interval Schedule

• (VI) Variable-Interval Schedule

• (FR) Fixed-Ratio Schedule

• (VR) Variable-Ratio Schedule