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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Definitions:

Heat Of Hydrogenation

The heat of hydrogenation is the change in enthalpy that occurs when an unsaturated compound reacts with hydrogen to become saturated, used as a measure of the stability of the compound’s double bonds.

Alkene

A hydrocarbon compound characterized by the presence of at least one carbon-carbon double bond, playing a vital role in organic chemistry.

IUPAC Name

The systematic naming of chemical compounds as recommended by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

Alkene

Organic compounds featuring one or more double bonds between carbon atoms, participating in diverse organic processes.