Schedules of Reinforcement

Blake is a carpet installer who wants to be paid for each square foot of carpet he lays rather than with an hourly wage. Blake prefers working on a ________ schedule of reinforcement.

• variable interval

• variable ratio

• fixed interval

• fixed ratio

 

Purchasing state lottery tickets is reinforced with monetary winnings on a ________ schedule.

• fixed interval

• variable interval

• fixed ratio

• variable ratio

 

An executive in a computer software firm works with his office door closed. At the same time every hour he opens the door to see what his employees are doing. The employees have learned to work especially hard during the five minutes before and while the door is open. Their work pattern is typical of responses that are reinforced on a ________ schedule.

• fixed interval

• variable interval

• fixed ratio

• variable ratio

You are expecting an important letter in the mail. As the regular delivery time approaches you glance more and more frequently out the window, searching for the letter carrier. Your behavior in this situation typifies that associated with which schedule of reinforcement?

• fixed interval

• variable interval

• fixed ratio

• variable ratio

Getting a strike in bowling fits what schedule of reinforcement?

• variable ratio

• fixed ratio

• variable interval

• fixed interval

Getting the clothes out of the dryer once it buzzes is what schedule of reinforcement?

• fixed ratio

• variable ratio

• fixed interval

• variable interval

Selling a product door to door is based on what schedule of reinforcement?

• fixed interval

• fixed ratio

• variable interval

• variable ratio

Receiving a paycheck every other Friday fits what shedule of reinforcement?

• fixed interval

• variable interval

• fixed ratio

• variable ratio

Doing one hundred pushups a day to maintain core fitness fits what schedule of reinforcement?

• fixed ratio

• variable ratio

• fixed interval

• variable interval

A surfer waitiing for the perfect wave to come in fits what schedule of reinforcement?

• fixed ratio

• variable ratio

• fixed interval

• variable interval