Financial Intermediaries Include ________ That Acquire the Bulk of Their

question 16

Multiple Choice

Financial intermediaries include ________ that acquire the bulk of their funds by offering their liabilities to the public mostly in the form of deposits; insurance companies, pension funds, and finance companies.

• A) depository institutions
• B) utilities
• C) initial public offerings
• D) preferred equity instrument.

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Definitions:

Tolman's View

An approach in psychology proposed by Edward C. Tolman that emphasizes the role of cognition and purposive behavior in understanding learning.

Learning

A relatively permanent change in behavior potential that occurs as a result of experience.

Learned Helplessness

A scenario in which an individual is plagued by feelings of helplessness, caused by either a distressing event or repeated failures to accomplish their goals.

Seligman

Known for his work on learned helplessness and its connection to depression, proposing that it results from a perceived lack of control over the outcome of a situation.