Lance is a door-to-door insurance salesman. Lance finds it difficult to predict what his sales will be for any given day. On some days, he sells one policy for every three houses that he visits; on other days, he may sell one policy every twenty houses. Lance is being rewarded on a ____ reinforcement schedule.?
a. ?fixed-ratio
b. ?fixed-interval
c. ?variable-ratio
d. ?variable-interval
ANSWER:
c
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