You are watching a rat pressing a lever in a Skinner box to obtain food pellets.The rat is pressing the lever at a very high rate,but it takes a break from lever pressing each time a food pellet is delivered.What type of schedule was likely used to train the rat

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In a fixed-ratio reinforcement schedule, a reward is delivered after a fixed number of responses. In this case, the rat takes a break each time a food pellet is delivered, indicating that it has successfully completed a specific number of lever presses to receive the pellet. The high rate of lever pressing also suggests that the ratio of responses to rewards is fixed. Therefore, the most likely schedule used to train the rat is a fixed-ratio reinforcement schedule.

You Are Watching a Rat Pressing a Lever in a Skinner