If you check your phone to see if you have text messages, you sometimes have one. You can't make text messages come faster by checking more frequently! Which of the following schedules of reinforcement fits this example?

a. fixed ratio
b. fixed interval
c. variable interval
d. variable ratio


Ans: c. variable interval

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