Match Each of the Following Scenarios with the Type of Reinforcement

question 46

Multiple Choice

Match each of the following scenarios with the type of reinforcement it most clearly illustrates.
-​negative reinforcement

• A)Not enough customers are enrolling in your department store's rewards program, so you offer a monthly $50 bonus to the employee who signs up the most customers.
• B)To encourage your employees to sign up customers in the department store rewards program, you announce that whoever signs up the most customers this month will be exempt from cleaning duties for a week.
• C)Gary signed up a grand total of 0 customers in the department store's reward program last month.He clearly isn't trying at all, so you threaten to fire him if he doesn't sign up at least one customer on his next shift.
• D)Your efforts to enroll customers in your department store's rewards program are so successful that the store actually starts losing money on it.You withdraw all of the incentives you've been using to encourage your employees to enroll more customers in the program.

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Definitions:

Other Expenses

Non-operating expenses that do not relate to the main operating activities of the business; they appear in a separate section on the income statement. One example given in the text is Interest Expense, interest owed on money borrowed by the company.

Income Statement

A financial statement that shows a company's revenues, expenses, and net income over a specific period.

Supplies Used

The cost of consumables used in the operation of a business during an accounting period.

Total Liability

The combined amount of debts and obligations that a company owes to outside parties.