Maricella works as a seamstress. Her boss tells her that every time she completes five shirts, she will receive $5. When she is 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 work is influenced by a reinforcement schedule, specifically a fixed-ratio schedule, where reinforcement (getting paid $5) is given after a set number of responses (completing five shirts). This typically results in a high rate of response with a short pause after each reinforcement, hence rapid shirt completion with a short break after each five is completed.

Maricella Works as a Seamstress