All of the Following Are Reasons Average Workers in the United

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Multiple Choice

All of the following are reasons average workers in the United States today produce more than their counterparts a century ago EXCEPT that the modern worker:

• A)is better educated.
• B)has more physical capital to work with.
• C)has better technology to work with.
• D)works longer hours.

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Definitions:

Primary Reinforcers

Innate reinforcing stimuli that satisfy basic biological needs or desires, such as food, water, and sleep, without learning.

Secondary Reinforcers

Stimuli that acquire their reinforcing properties through their association with primary reinforcers, such as money getting its value from the things it can buy.

Schedules of Reinforcement

The specific patterns and timings of rewards or punishments that control the rate and timing of responses in operant conditioning.

Response Pattern

The characteristic manner in which an individual or system reacts to a specific stimulus or series of stimuli.