Question

using an operant chamber, skinner timed food pellets to drop every 15 minutes. if a rat was in a certain location just before the food was presented, the rat went to that location more frequently even though it was not directly tied to the appearance of food. which of the following best explains this superstitious behavior?

Answer 1

Any behavior that is accidentally reinforced is more likely to be repeated. This best explains this superstitious behavior.

'A conduct that is reinforced coincidentally due to temporal contiguity/closeness between an independent behavior and the distribution of reinforcers,' is how one can define superstitious behavior. The renowned psychologist Skinner demonstrated this in his experiment, where he found that the rats were "vulnerable to human behavior since they knew that arriving at that area would assist them in acquiring the food" (however, not being related directly). Such behavior is an example of rats' superstitious behavior, which they unintentionally encourage by acting in a certain way in order to achieve the desired effects (food).

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