If you were bitten by a dog as a child, leading you to fear dogs, but your family later adopted a friendly puppy, each exposure to the puppy would likely the prediction error for future encounters with the dog.
A)decrease
B)not change
C)increase
D)randomly change

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The prediction error is the difference between expectation and outcome. Initially, the child may have expected all dogs to be aggressive and dangerous (based on their past experience with the dog bite), but the friendly puppy contradicts this expectation, which leads to a decrease in the prediction error. Over time, as the child has more positive interactions with the puppy, the expectation that all dogs are hostile is increasingly challenged, resulting in a decreased prediction error.

If You Were Bitten by a Dog as a Child