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.

• 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.
• Now using the principles of observational learning describe the process in which a person can acquire a superstitious behavior.
• 2. Your initial post (your response to the topic) must contain a citation. It is your ideas supported by research. Please refer to the APA Power Point in the Start Here section of the classroom for information on proper formatting. There will be a deduction of 20 points for failure to cite a source within your initial post and to provide a reference at the end of your initial post.3. Your initial post must be a minimum of 300 words

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Superstitions are unsupported beliefs about cause and effect that guide the actions of many people. One such belief is that breaking a mirror is bad luck. In medieval times, a mirror was considered a reflection of one’s soul, and thus breaking one was concomitant to breaking one’s soul. It is believed that breaking one can bring seven years of bad luck. The principles of operant conditioning have helped to imbed this superstition into people’s belief systems.

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