Reinforcement $($Connect$,$ Perform$)$

Read this scenario and then answer the question that follows.

You are the manager of a customer service call center that handles customer inquiries for a large clothing retailer. One of your responsibilities is to use

different types of reinforcement to motivate employees to engage in certain behaviors while on the phone with customers. You want your coworker

George to stop playing practical jokes on his coworkers, so you decide to start ignoring the pranks and tell others to ignore them as well. What type of

reinforcement did you use?

Extinction

Punishment

Negative reinforcement

Positive reinforcement

Match each situation with the reinforcement schedule most likely to reach your goal.

You give your salespeople a monetary bonus after their first successful car sale, then their third sale,

then their sixth, and then after every $5$ sales.

You decide to change your company's pay period to every two weeks instead of every month because

you think that this will better motivate your employees.

You decide to motivate your assemblers to work quickly and accurately by giving them a small bonus