In Her Fifth-Grade Classroom, Ms

question 67

Multiple Choice

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 reinforcement
• B) Social isolation
• C) Response cost
• D) Premack principle

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