A student sometimes got As on his midterm exams last year when he used his green pen to write the exams. Now he always takes his lucky green pens to exams. How did the students superstitious behavior arise?

OPERANT CONDITIONING

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A student sometimes got A’s on his midterm exams last year when he used his green pen to write the exams. Now he always takes his lucky green pens to exams. How did the student’s superstitious behavior arise?

A	Classical conditioning
B	Operant conditioning
C	Either A or B
D	None of the above

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Shaping is the use of reinforcement of successive approximations of a desired behavior. Specifically, when using a shaping technique, each approximate desired behavior that is demonstrated is reinforced, while behaviors that are not approximations of the desired behavior are not reinforced.

Detailed explanation-2: -Stimulus generalization is the tendency to respond to a new stimulus as if it is the original conditioned stimulus.

Detailed explanation-3: -In psychology, latent learning refers to knowledge that only becomes clear when a person has an incentive to display it. For example, a child might learn how to complete a math problem in class, but this learning is not immediately apparent.

Detailed explanation-4: -Learning. a relatively permanent change in an organism’s behavior due to experience.

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