You Teach Your Dog to Fetch the Paper by Giving

question 99

Multiple Choice

You teach your dog to fetch the paper by giving him a cookie each time he does so. This is an example of

• A) operant conditioning.
• B) classical conditioning.
• C) conditioned reinforcement.
• D) partial reinforcement.

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Internal Rate

Short for Internal Rate of Return (IRR), a financial metric used to estimate the profitability of potential investments by calculating the rate of return at which net present value of all cash flows (both positive and negative) from a project equals zero.

Profitability Index

A capital budgeting tool that measures the ratio of the present value of future cash flows from an investment to the investment's initial cost.

Mutually Exclusive

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Net Present Value

A financial metric that calculates the present value of all cash flows, both incoming and outgoing, of an investment.