If you want an organism to respond very rapidly with only a brief pause after each reinforcement, which schedule of reinforcement would you choose?
a. fixed-interval
b. fixed-ratio
c. variable-interval
d. Any reinforcement schedule would work as well as any other.
Answer: b
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