The BEST Explanation of How the Hall-Of-Fame Baseball Player Wade

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Multiple Choice

The BEST explanation of how the Hall-of-Fame baseball player Wade Boggs acquired his belief that he should eat chicken as part of his pre-game ritual is that he:

• A) began to perceive that when he ate chicken, he tended to get hits, forming an illusory correlation.
• B) observed other players engaging in similar rituals and imitated their behaviors through social learning theory.
• C) tried many different strategies to improve his hitting and settled on eating chicken before each game.
• D) grew up in a family that believed in many superstitions and observed many superstitious rituals.

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