You walk up to a soda machine and put in a dollar, and are rewarded with a bottle of root beer. When you put in another dollar, you get another soda. Assuming that the machine does not run out of root beer, which kind of reinforcement schedule does this machine operate on?

A) partial reinforcement
B) interval reinforcement
C) continuous reinforcement
D) ratio reinforcement

Continuous Reinforcement

A learning schedule in which every correct response is followed by a reward, facilitating rapid acquisition of a new behavior.

Ratio Reinforcement

A type of operant conditioning reinforcement schedule in which a response is reinforced only after a specified number of responses have occurred.

Interval Reinforcement

A type of operant conditioning scheduling wherein rewards are given to an organism at variable time intervals to encourage behavior.