You Walk Up to a Soda Machine and Put in a Dollar

question 361

Multiple Choice

You walk up to a soda machine and put in a dollar, and are rewarded with a bottle of root beer. When you put in another dollar, you get another soda. Assuming that the machine has an unlimited supply of root beer, which kind of reinforcement schedule does this machine operate on?

• A) partial reinforcement
• B) interval reinforcement
• C) continuous reinforcement
• D) ratio reinforcement

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Sister Chromatids

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Interphase

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