An employee paid on a weekly basis operates under a _____ schedule of reinforcement
a. continuous
c. fixed-interval
b. fixed-ratio
d. positive
ANS: C
FEEDBACK: A job in which your salary is paid once a week or once a month operates on the fixed-interval schedule. You are not paid according to the number of items you produce or the number of sales you make (the number of responses) but by the number of hours, days, or weeks that elapse.
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