Operant Conditioning, also called instrumental conditioning is the process through which animals and humans learn to behave and act in ways that would obtain rewards and prevent and avoid punishments. This is also the name for the paradigm in experimental psychology through which the processes of learning and action selection are studied.
Superstitious behavior takes place when the delivery of a punisher or reinforcing occurs closely together in time, which is, known as temporal cognitive with independent behavior. Therefore, the behavior is then accidently punished or reinforced which increases the likelihood of the ...