Acme,Inc,Produces Widgets

question 62

Multiple Choice

Acme,Inc.,produces widgets.To manufacture a new type of widget,it took 52 hours for the first widget.Acme estimates it has an 82% learning rate.Using the logarithmic approach,calculate the time it will take to manufacture the 87th widget.

• A)17.78 hours
• B)14.51 hours
• C)16.52 hours
• D)15.94 hours

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Definitions:

Reinforcement Schedules

Involves the structured application of rewards or punishments to modulate behavior within a learning process, emphasizing the timing and frequency.

Rates of Response

The speed or frequency with which an organism responds to a stimuli in behavioral psychology, or the reply frequency in survey research.

Instrumental Conditioning

A method of modifying the intensity of a behavior through the use of either rewards or penalties.

Reinforcement Schedule

A strategy in behavioral psychology that determines how and when a response will be rewarded to encourage certain behavior.