The coach is employing contingent exercise Contingent exercise is a form of positive punishment where a person is required to perform a physical activity eg running doing pushups immediately following an undesirable behavior The exercise is delivered contingent on the occurrence of the target behavior In this scenario the teams undesirable behavior losing a game they should have won due to poor performance is immediately followed by a period of forced physical exertion running sprints The intent is to decrease the likelihood of similar poor performance in the future Lets evaluate the other options Negative practice Negative practice involves requiring the individual to repeatedly engage in the undesirable behavior itself usually in a massed trial format until it becomes aversive or satiated For example if the team was losing by lack of effort negative practice might involve making them repeatedly simulate losing or performing poorly which is not what is described Restitution overcorrection Restitution overcorrection involves requiring the individual to not only repair the environment to its original state but also to improve it beyond its original state For instance if a child broke a toy they might have to fix it and then clean the entire play area This is about repairing environmental damage which is not applicable here as no environment was damaged by the loss Response cost Response cost is a form of negative punishment where a specific amount of a reinforcer eg tokens money privileges is removed or taken away contingent on the occurrence of a target behavior The team did not lose any previously earned reinforcers instead they were made to do something aversive exercise