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.

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Superstitious behaviors can be explained by the connection to reinforcement within a response chain, where a reward reinforces the behavior that immediately precedes it, even if the behavior is not causally related to the outcome.

Human Superstitious Behaviors Can Be Partially Explained by