In this video episode we look at superstitions and how they develop. We’ll start with your bowling style. Your bowling style actually have a lot to say about superstitions – how you get them and why you keep them. For psychology students, here’s a good example of operant conditioning at work in the real world. And by the way, why do you keep pressing that elevator button?. We’ll look at that too.
Resources for this episode
- Go to the book Forty Studies that Changed Psychology: Explorations into the History of Psychological Research at Amazon.
- Watch a great video on YouTube which shows how the principles of behaviorism were used to train a parakeet to play golf and basketball.