Schedules of Reinforcement General Guidelines Each week, you must provide an ini

Schedules of Reinforcement
General Guidelines
Each week, you must provide an initial post responding to one of the discussion board prompt options. Please include the discussion prompt you are addressing in the subject line of your post. Once you are done, review the posts of other learners and engage in two responses to a learner, or learners, in any discussion board prompt; you may respond to the same learner twice in a conversation.
Your responses should be substantive and demonstrate your understanding of the material. In this, and all of your courseroom posts, be sure to keep your tone respectful and professional. Use the name of the peer you are addressing. Cite any references according to APA guidelines.
Week 5, Discussion Prompt Option 1
What Do You Think?
Reinforcement schedules significantly impact the development, rate, and maintenance of behavior. Even the delivery of reinforcement in the form of a paycheck for completing work tasks can impact employee performance. Consider the following study on employee pay schedules and discuss your interpretation, thoughts, and questions.
Use the Capella University Library to read the following:
Long, R. D., III, Wilder., D. A., Betz, A., & Dutta, A. (2012). Effects of and preference for pay for performance: An analogue analysis. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 45(4), 821–826.
Week 5, Discussion Prompt Option 2
Real Life
Have you ever played a game before and didn’t want to stop? Revisit or imagine that experience and how schedules of reinforcement might relate to continued gameplay. What compound schedules of reinforcement can you identify from a game that you’ve played before?
For details on how ABA relates to gamification read the following:
Loyalty – Building a Better Mousetrap.