PSY260H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 179-202: Slot Machine, Frontal Lobe, Pergolide
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Fixed-ratio (fr) schedule. in an fr schedule, some fixed number of responses must be made before a reinforcer is delivered. Ex: in real life, workers are paid every 100 boxes they have moved. post reinforcement pause. In operant conditioning with a fixed-ratio (fr) schedule of reinforcement, a brief pause following a period of fast responding leading to reinforcement. Novelists often try to do this type of pause by ending each chapter with an exciting cliff-hanger. So that the readers will keep turning pages to see what happens next. Fi10 the best way is to wait for 10 seconds and then response to it. We cannot judge the time perfect, so we are judge the time by our best. A reinforcement schedule in which the organism can make any of several possible responses, each of which may lead to a different outcome reinforced according to a different reinforcement schedule. The pigeon will press the vi2 more than the vi1.
