Which of the Following Is (Are)accurate Regarding a Federal Agency's

question 9

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is (are) accurate regarding a federal agency's Statement of Changes in Net Position?

• A) The statement starts with the beginning of year balances in the net position accounts and reconciles these to the ending balances appearing on the agency's Balance Sheet.
• B) Costs are measured using the budgetary basis of accounting.
• C) Both (a) and (b) above
• D) Neither (a) nor (b) above

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior, through which associations are made between a behavior and the consequences for that behavior.

Extinction

In the study of psychology, this term describes the slow reduction and final elimination of a conditioned response due to the absence of pairing between the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli.

Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to differentiate between a conditioned stimulus and other stimuli that have not been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.

Classical Conditioning

A training method where two signals are consistently associated with each other; a reaction initially triggered by the second signal ultimately becomes triggered by just the first signal alone.