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?

A) a fixed-ratio schedule

B) a variable-ratio schedule

C) a fixed-interval schedule

D) a variable-interval schedule

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Advanced Placement (AP)

Hugh Hebert

22 May, 00:01

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?

A) a fixed-ratio schedule

B) a variable-ratio schedule

C) a fixed-interval schedule

D) a variable-interval schedule

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D. Is the answer your looking for it basically means that it's inconsistent not keeping up like when it says they worked more for ten minutes it didn't keep up meaning inconsistent if they would have worked hard the whole 1 hour and 30 minutes it would have been consistent c. But they only worked harder for ten minutes and stopped when she showed up.