After graduating from college, you are hired to work in a factory as an industrial psychologist. The workers put together iPods. They can either be paid by the hour or by the number of iPods they put together in a day. You decide that you will do the latter (pay by the number of iPods put together). According to Skinner, you have put the workers on a fixed-ratio schedule.

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A fixed-ratio schedule involves reinforcing a behavior after a specific number of responses. In this case, the workers are being paid for the number of iPods they put together, which is a specific behavior being reinforced after a certain number of responses (number of iPods). Therefore, the workers are on a fixed-ratio schedule.

After Graduating from College, You Are Hired to Work in a Factory