Psychologist B. F. Skinner believed that superstitions were caused by __________ reinforcement of __________ behavior.

Skinner argued that superstitious behavior can develop when a behavior happens by chance just before a reward, making the person repeat it. Because the reward comes only occasionally rather than every time, this is intermittent reinforcement of accidental behavior. The correct choice is “intermittent . . . accidental.”

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