At Dinner Ming Yan Eats Several Familiar Foods (Pasta,salad,bread)and an Unfamiliar

question 107

Multiple Choice

At dinner Ming Yan eats several familiar foods (pasta,salad,bread) and an unfamiliar food (deep fried cheese curds) .Later that evening she suffers abdominal discomfort.She attributes this to the deep fried cheese curds,but later learns that she had developed a sensitivity to gluten.Her misattribution of the problem to the deep fried cheese curds is likely due to ____.

• A)latent inhibition
• B)discrimination
• C)habituation
• D)sensitization

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Definitions:

Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

A logical fallacy that suggests a causal relationship because one event followed another in time, even though no causal connection exists.

Ceteris Paribus

A Latin phrase meaning "all other things being equal," used in economics to analyze the effect of one variable on another, holding all other factors constant.

Fallacy Of Logic

An error in reasoning that renders an argument invalid or undermines the argument's logical structure.

Ceteris Paribus

Ceteris paribus is a Latin phrase meaning "all other things being equal," used in economics to isolate the effect of one variable change in the study of a phenomenon.