Imagine That You Graphed the Cumulative Number of Bar-Press Responses

question 23

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you graphed the cumulative number of bar-press responses over time of four rats,each reinforced on a different one of the four schedules of intermittent reinforcement.Each rat's behavior is graphed on a separate line.The line with the greatest slope should be that displaying the behavior of the rat reinforced on the _____ schedule.

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

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