When People Dial a Phone Number and Get a Busy

question 496

Multiple Choice

When people dial a phone number and get a busy signal, they may have to wait 30 seconds or 30 minutes in order to get through with most people doggedly dialing over and over again until they get a connection.This illustrates that the reward of "getting through" to the other person is on which schedule of reinforcement?

• A) variable interval
• B) variable ratio
• C) fixed interval
• D) continuous

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