The Common Belief That Dying Individuals Can Delay Their Death

question 11

Multiple Choice

The common belief that dying individuals can delay their death past holidays and personally significant days illustrates the interplay of which of the following pairs?

• A) confirmation bias and Gödel effect
• B) confirmation bias and memorable events error
• C) memorable events error and self-serving bias
• D) memorable events error and Gödel effect

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Definitions:

Unconditioned Response

An automatic, natural reaction to a stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning.

Conditioned Response

The learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become conditioned through association with an unconditioned stimulus in classical conditioning.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally triggers a response without any prior learning.

Conditioned Stimulus

An initially neutral signal that, upon being linked with an unconditioned stimulus, ultimately elicits a conditioned reaction.