Frederick trained his parrot to open the door to his cage by pecking at a lever three times. Frederick used a _____ schedule of reinforcement to encourage the desired behavior.
A) variable interval
B) variable-ratio
C) fixed interval
D) fixed-ratio

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Frederick used a fixed-ratio schedule of reinforcement because the behavior of pecking the lever three times was reinforced with the reward of opening the cage door every time it occurred exactly three times.

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