Question

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.

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: B.expect that this consequence will follow their good behavior.

People tend to be motivated to do a certain action if they're sure they could obtain a certain level reward from doing it or punishment if they do not do it.
If in the scenario above the students inherently believed that you're not going to follow up on your promise, it would be less likely that they would do the good behavior.