Schedules of Positive Reinforcement
Channel: psychology concepts
Date: 05/05/2021

In addition to continuous reinforcement, psychologists have described four types of schedules of reinforcement and have shown us the effects of each on behaviour. On a fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement, the reinforcer is given only after a specified number of responses. On a variable ratio schedule of reinforcement, the reinforcer is obtained only after a variable number of responses have been made.