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Three hours after eating at an airport fast-food restaurant, Karen got extremely nauseous while in flight. The next time she was in the airport and walked by that restaurant, she felt a wave of nausea. Which statement does NOT explain this phenomenon?

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Answer:

This statement does not explain this phenomenon: Karen felt a wave of nausea because she passed by a restaurant that made her feel nauseous during a flight.

Step-by-step explanation:

The cause of Karen´s nausea is more psychological than physical, while the above statement commits the attribution error of mistaking a physical for a psychological cause. The statement in the answer attributes the cause of Karen´s nausea to eating at a restaurant which caused nausea during her flight. However, since the cause of the second nausea episode is that Karen remembered that the restaurant had caused her to feel nausea, so she is feeling nausea now. So the statement in the answer is mistaken about the the cause of her nausea.

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