Which of the Following Is an Example of Terminal Sedation

question 120

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of terminal sedation?

• A) providing a lethal injection to a prisoner who is receiving the death penalty
• B) removing a breathing tube from a comatose patient
• C) providing enough barbiturates to a patient who is dying so he or she becomes unconscious
• D) withholding the necessary medication required to sustain life

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Definitions:

Behavioral Contrast

In a two-choice discrimination task, the increase in response to SD that occurs at the same time as responding to S∆ declines.

Discrimination Learning

Responding in different ways to different stimuli

Generalization Test Stimulus

A stimulus that differs from the original conditioned stimulus and is used to test the extent of stimulus generalization in an experimental setting.

Conditioning Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a previously neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, elicits a conditioned response.