Children who are working quietly on their homework when the hourly bell rings will be allowed to go to the play area for 10 minutes.Just before the bell is about to ring,the children become so quiet that you could hear "a pin drop" in the classroom.These children's quiet behavior occurred right before the bell because they are on which schedule of reinforcement?
A) continuous
B) fixed ratio
C) variable interval
D) fixed interval

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The behavior occurred right before the hourly bell, which suggests that it is being reinforced on a fixed interval schedule. This means that the reinforcement (going to the play area) is delivered after a fixed amount of time has passed (one hour), regardless of how much work the children have completed. The fact that they become quiet just before the bell suggests that they have learned to associate this behavior with the upcoming reinforcement, which is a characteristic of fixed interval schedules.

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