PSY 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Classical Conditioning, Lemonade, Reinforcement
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A child selling cookies door to door will most likely result and selling being reinforced on: a variable ration (vr) schedule. A salaried employee gets paid every two weeks by direct deposit. This reinforcement schedule is most like: fixed time (ft, fixed interval schedule of reinforcement delivers reinforcement for the first target response after the interval. The paycheck will be deposited into the bank account automatically. Because the project is delivered independent of any target response, this is a fixed time schedule for noncontingent reinforcement. Compound schedules of reinforcement include: sequences of simple schedules, sequential and simultaneous schedules with one response or two responses consisting of a combination of different your schedules, extinction, and simple schedules. You"re changing channels on your tv and find that if you hit the button too fast, the channel doesn"t change; but if you slow down to the right of once a second, the channels advance with every button press.
