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:

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

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.

starvation is bad because your body needs nutrition and to deprive it of nutrition can cause problems with both health and fitness.

explanation:

it can make weight loss slow down over time, but it won't cause someone to gain weight depsite restricting calories. starvation causes weakness in the senses like thirst.