Over the Years at Cosmos Widget Factory, Mr

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Multiple Choice

Over the years at Cosmos Widget Factory, Mr. Cosmos has noticed that each employee tends to be most productive in the weeks just before his or her biannual performance review. Had Mr. Cosmos read Chapter 5, "Learning," he would know that his employees' behavior is:

• A) the result of being conditioned on a fixed-interval schedule of reinforcement.
• B) an example of learned helplessness.
• C) an example of stimulus control.
• D) the result of being conditioned on a fixed-ratio schedule of reinforcement.

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