A guest speaker is coming to your classroom, and you want your students to treat her with courtesy and respect.You decide to give your students 15 minutes of free time if they show appropriate behavior during the guest's visit.From the perspective of social cognitive theory, your reinforcement is likely to work only if your students:
A)Also experience intrinsic reinforcement for good behavior
B)Expect that this consequence will follow their good behavior
C)Have previously been directly reinforced for such behavior
D)Have previously been vicariously reinforced for such behavior

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According to social cognitive theory, behavior is influenced by reinforcement, but reinforcement only works if the individual expects that the consequence will follow their behavior. Therefore, the students need to know that they will get 15 minutes of free time if they show appropriate behavior during the guest's visit.

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