By midafternoon in a utility-locate class, "great job" has gone stale and energy is flat. How should the instructor keep reinforcement working?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
The same compliment all day is leftover coffee — fine at dawn and nobody wants it at 3. Change the coin: a named win, a choice of case, a check on the progress board, then a harder locate. The objective stays put; the reinforcer gets a new jacket.
Full Explanation
Variety of reinforcement techniques during training keeps municipal learners responding to the objective instead of tuning out a stale phrase. Specific praise, choice, visible progress, and a harder lab are different modes aimed at the same locate skill. Louder repetition, a long drought, or swapping in candy does not restore meaning. The instructor still measures the same published outcome.