After graduating from college,you are hired to work in a factory as an industrial psychologist.The workers put together IPODs.They can either be paid by the hour or by the number of IPODs they put together in a day.You decide that you will do the latter (pay determined by the number of IPODs put together).According to Skinner,you have put the workers on a fixed-ratio schedule.

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Skinner's fixed-ratio schedule involves reinforcing a behavior after a specific number of responses. In this case, the reinforcement (payment) is given for each completed IPOD, which is a fixed ratio schedule.

After Graduating from College,you Are Hired to Work in a Factory