Josiah Checks His Text Messages Quite Often Throughout the Day

question 111

Multiple Choice

Josiah checks his text messages quite often throughout the day.Some days there is a text each time he checks; sometimes several hours go by with no new messages arriving.How is Josiah's behaviour of checking his messages being reinforced in this example

• A) on a fixed-ratio schedule 
• B) on a variable-interval schedule 
• C) on a variable-ratio schedule 
• D) on a fixed-interval schedule

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