This is an opinion question, which means there is no wrong answer. Answer it however you would like.
I would say they are more believable if whoever has created the fake story hasn’t included any outrageous and nonrealistic details, since true stories are sometime so unbelievable because of the randomness of them.
Geocentric- the earth is at the center, Heliocentric- the sun is at the center.
This sentence would probably be a citation in APA style. Citations on research papers are very important since they give due credit to the original owner of the statement. Statements that don't have citations tells the readers that those statements are of the researcher/s alone which would be a problem for them if found out that it wasn't theirs to begin with. This would result to a work of plagiarism which is a grave sin in constructing research papers and is more equated with the act of stealing.
It allows you to focus on a single thought or idea which naturally prevents distraction from other random ideas,thoughts or emotions