Question

Mr. Jones has been teaching social skills to his fourth grade class. After learning the skills, Mr. Jones’ students are using them most often when he provides positive incentives for their use and consequences when they make "bad choices." Mr. Jones’ use of these meaningful incentives and consequences represents elements of:a. motivation.b. consistency.c. modeling.d. performance feedback.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is B. motivation

Explanation:

Motivation refers to the process of stimulating a person or group of people to actions to accomplish the goals. It energizes, directs and sustains a behavior over a long period of time.

Mr. Jones providing positive incentives to his students as a reward for the use of taught social skills and consequences when they make bad choices represents element of motivation. Mr. Jones understands that motivated students are more excited to learn and participate and providing incentives will help in achieving this purpose.