Pete Joined Texas Technologies as a Sales Manager

question 47

True/False

Pete joined Texas Technologies as a sales manager. Upon starting, part of his sign-on bonus included the opportunity to buy up to 500 shares of the company's publicly traded stock at $10 per share, during the first three months of employment. The stock was trading on the NASDAQ exchange for $22 per share. Pete's new company was offering a dividend reinvestment plan.

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Definitions:

CS (Conditioned Stimulus)

A previously neutral stimulus that, after being paired with an unconditioned stimulus, elicits a conditioned response.

UCS (Unconditioned Stimulus)

In classical conditioning, an unconditioned stimulus is something that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any learning needed.

Stimulus Generalization

The process by which a response is elicited by stimuli that are similar but not identical to the conditioned stimulus in a conditioning experiment.

Classical Conditioning

A method of conditioning wherein two stimuli are steadily paired; a reaction, initially caused by the second stimulus, is at last caused by the first stimulus by itself.