Human superstitious behaviors can be partially explained by

a. their apparent connection to the reinforcement within a response chain.
b. the effects of latent learning on this sequence of events.
c. the tendency of a reward to reinforce only the response which immediately precedes it.
d. all of these.


ANSWER: a

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