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

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A fixed-ratio schedule is a reinforcement schedule where a behavior is reinforced every "x" number of times it occurs. In this case, the workers are being paid for every "x" number of iPads they put together, which fits the definition of a fixed-ratio schedule.

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