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.