Introduction to Psychology 10th Edition by Rod Plotnik,Haig Kouyoumdjian

Exercise 43

If you received reinforcement every time you performed a good deed, you would be on a (a) _____ schedule. This schedule is often used at the beginning of operant conditioning because it results in a rapid rate of learning. If your good deeds were not reinforced every time, you would be on a (b) _____ schedule. This schedule is more effective in maintaining the target behavior in the long run. There are four kinds of partial reinforcement schedules.