Rico attends technical college where he is using technology to study for the ged. his computer guides rico through an inventory of increasingly more challenging questions. if he answers correctly, the questions increase in challenge; if he answers incorrectly, the questions decrease in difficulty. rico is using which application of operant conditioning?

The answer to this question is that Rico is using an application called Programmed instruction. Programmed instruction is also known as Programmed learning. A programmed instruction is a research based system where in the students or learners are being introduced in a teaching machine or computer that is programmed to test the comprehension of the student on the specific subject by answering the test questions of the program.

An informal structure in a bureaucracy would be something like so-called "office politics". where there's a formal structure set up for the organization, but then an informal subculture as well that has a way of organizing the bureaucracy further. this can be positive because it sets up an added degree of organization, albeit informal, within the bureaucracy.