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Many of us have bought lottery tickets at one time or another.Few of us have ever won. Explain why you think people continue topurchase lottery tickets given the very lean schedule ofreinforcement. Can you think of other instances in your life inwhich very intermittent or infrequent reinforcement was enough tomaintain some of your behaviors?

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Purchasing lottery tickets is an example of variable ratio schedule of reinforcement where a response is reinforced after an unpredictable number of responses This schedule creates a steady high rate of responding People    See Answer
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