The More Lottery Tickets You Buy, the Greater Your Chances

question 42

Multiple Choice

The more lottery tickets you buy, the greater your chances of winning. However, you have no way of knowing how many tickets you will have to buy before you win. It might be fewer than ten; it might be more than a million. This is an example of which type of schedule of reinforcement?

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

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