Over the years at Cosmos Widget Factory, Mr. Cosmos has noticed that each employee tends to be most productive in the weeks just before his or her biannual performance review. Had Mr. Cosmos read Chapter 5 on ''Learning,'' he would know that his employees' behavior was:
A)the result of being conditioned on a fixed-interval schedule of reinforcement.
B)an example of learned helplessness.
C)an example of stimulus control.
D)the result of being conditioned on a fixed-ratio schedule of reinforcement.

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The behavior of the employees can be explained by the fixed-interval schedule of reinforcement, which is commonly used in performance review systems. A fixed-interval schedule provides reinforcement only after a specific amount of time has passed (in this case, the biannual performance review). The employees are conditioned to be most productive in the weeks leading up to the review because they know they will receive positive feedback or rewards if they perform well.

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