After Graduating from College, You Are Hired to Work in a Factory

question 131

True/False

After graduating from college, you are hired to work in a factory as an industrial psychologist. The workers put together IPODs. They can either be paid by the hour or by the number of IPODs they put together in a day. You decide that you will do the latter (pay by the number of IPODs put together). According to Skinner, you have put the workers on a fixed-ratio schedule.

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