Who Is Engaging in Active Euthanasia

question 10

Multiple Choice

Who is engaging in active euthanasia?

• A) Adam, who is withholding pain-killing drugs
• B) Sandler, who is removing a feed-tube from a patient who cannot feed him/herself
• C) Will, who is injecting a terminally ill patient with a lethal dose of drugs
• D) Farrell, who is removing a respirator from a patient who is totally brain dead

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Definitions:

Stimulus Generalization

The process by which a conditioned response is triggered by stimuli similar to the original conditioned stimulus.

Behavior Modification

A therapy approach aimed at changing undesirable behaviors through reinforcement or punishment.

Stimulus Discrimination

The ability to distinguish between different stimuli, responding only to the specific stimulus conditioned.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the process by which a conditioned response decreases in frequency and eventually disappears, often due to the conditioned stimulus being presented repeatedly without the unconditioned stimulus.