Question

A kind of "magical thinking," frequently responsible for superstitious behaviors, in which events that occur close together in time are erroneously construed by a person to be causally linked is called:

Answer 1

Answer:Regression Fallacy

Explanation:

When a person mistake their action as been responsible for an unusual even that happen by chance,because this event occurs almost at the same time with the other event

Answer 2

Answer: PARATAXIC REASONING.

Explanation: Parataxic reasoning is otherwise known as post hoc error.

It the act of merging two independent events together in such a way as making them look like one occured as a result of the other or that the two events are caused by the same thing,as in the two events are dependent on each other.

Example of Parataxic reasoning is a young lady seeing all men as bad personalities because she was treated in a bad way and betrayed by her boyfriend.

Parataxic reasoning brings about irrational belief about something or misunderstanding about something that ideally isn't suppose to be so.