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Variable Ratio Reinforcement is the most powerful reinforcement schedule discovered by behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner through his "Skinner Box" experiments in the 1950s, in which rewards appear at unpredictable intervals, leading to extremely high rates of repetitive behavior that are very difficult to extinguish
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