Maricella works as a seamstress. Her boss tells her that every time she completes five shirts, she will receive $5. When done with the five shirts, she dumps them into a bin and gets paid. Her pattern of shirt completion is most likely to be ________.

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Maricella's pattern of shirt completion is likely to be rapid with a short break after each set of five shirts because she is on a fixed-ratio schedule of reinforcement, which typically results in a high rate of response with pauses after reinforcement.

Maricella Works as a Seamstress