For Individuals Facing a Terminal Illness, Their Decision-Making Session with Doctors

question 193

Multiple Choice

For individuals facing a terminal illness, their decision-making session with doctors and hospice professionals has been referred to as "end-of-life counseling" by some people and "attending a death panel" by others. These differences illustrate how which of the following can influence how we think about various issues?

• A)prototypes
• B)kinesthetic imagery
• C)connotative meanings
• D)denotative meanings

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Definitions:

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