Question

In her fifth-grade classroom, Ms. Latimer has several students who don't cooperate when she tells the class to get into group formation. These students are vocal about disliking group work. Ms. Latimer told them today that they may shorten their group task time by getting into groups quickly and completing cooperative tasks according to the ten-minute schedule she has planned. Ms. Latimer is using which of the following methods to get her students to cooperate? a. Negative reinforcementb. Reprimandsc. Response costd. Social isolation

Answer 1

Answer:

a. Negative reinforcement  

Explanation:

The answer is

a. Negative reinforcement  

By negative reinforcement, it means to remove a negative habit or behavior of a person to strengthen a result. It must not be confused with punishment.

When Ms. Latimer told her fifth grade students that she will shorten their group task time by getting into groups quickly. And complete the task in ten-minute schedule she has planned, she used the method of Negative reinforcement to make the students cooperate in the group task.

Thus the answer is a. Negative reinforcement.