The Talmud Recognizes a State Called Gosses in Which __________

question 1

Multiple Choice

The Talmud recognizes a state called gosses in which __________.

• A) a person is no longer competent to make medical decisions
• B) a terminally ill person's life may be ended if two rabbis agree
• C) death is imminent, but the person is still considered a human being
• D) friends and family gather around a dying person
• E) the soul has already departed the body, though the person is still alive

---

Definitions:

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become conditioned through association.

Cat Food

Manufactured food specifically formulated to meet the nutritional needs of domestic cats.

Classical Conditioning

A conditioning method where a response initially triggered by a second stimulus comes to be elicited by the first stimulus alone after repeated pairings of the two stimuli.

CS and US

In classical conditioning, CS stands for Conditioned Stimulus, which is a previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus (US), eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.