Andrew Works for NASA and Gets Paid Once a Month

question 41

Multiple Choice

Andrew works for NASA and gets paid once a month, whereas his friend George works at a fast-food restaurant and gets paid once a week. Despite the difference in when they are paid, both are paid on a _____ schedule of reinforcement.

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

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Definitions:

Mean Purchase

The average amount of purchases made over a certain period of time or across individuals.

Probability

The expression of an event's likelihood as a number from 0 to 1.

Standard Error

A measure that quantifies the variation or dispersion of sample means relative to the true population mean.

Variance

A measure of the spread or dispersion within a set of data points, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the mean.