Principles of observational learning

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Superstitions are unsupported beliefs about cause and effect that guide the actions of many people.

Pick a superstition that you have or that you have heard another person discuss.

1. Use the principles of operant conditioning to discuss how that superstition came in to existence and has become imbedded into your (or the other person's) belief system.

2. Now using the principles of observational learning describe the process in which a person can acquire a superstitious behavior.

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