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Sarah is a manager who wants to encourage her employees to consistently maintain a clean and organized workspace. She checks each employee’s desk at unpredictable times, on average, every 3 hours throughout the day. If an employee’s desk is clean and organized when she checks, she reinforces their behavior with small rewards, like a coffee voucher.   What type of reinforcement schedule is Sarah using to encourage her employees to maintain a clean workspace?

1. Some schedules of reinforcement produces a pause in behavior for a period of time following the reinforcement delivery. This pause in responding in called: [postreinforcemenetpause]. 2. Concurrent schedules of reinforcement produces response allocations based on the rates of reinforcement. In other words, the organism allocates most of his responding in choices with higher rate of reinforcement. This response allocation is addressed by the [matchinglaw] 3. Abrupt increases in the ratio requirements during schedule thinning can result in [rationstrain] 4. The schedule of reinforcement used to promote behavior variability is called [lagschedule]

Which choice represent a FI 10 min schedule of reinforcement?

For each data curve: Indicate the name of the basic schedule of reinforcement it represents; Write the definition of the basic schedule of reinforcement; Describe the pattern of behavior in each schedule (i.e., consistency of performance and rate of response).  Red =  Blue =  Green =  Black = 

[QUALITY POINTS – 2 extra points]  What is the primary purpose of schedule thinning in reinforcement, and how can you implement it?

SAFMEDS definition.  You should write the technical definition of each term. Definitions are similar to your responses in the SAFMEDS assignments.  EXTRA 2 POINTS if you earn maximum points for both definitions   Write the definition of: Continuous reinforcement Intermittent schedules of reinforcement

A rejected hypothesis 

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of all life?

In an experiment, how many variables should be TESTED?

Which of the following statements correctly describes sexual reproduction?