The Price of a Five-Year,zero-Coupon,default-Free Security with a Face Value

question 52

Multiple Choice

The price of a five-year,zero-coupon,default-free security with a face value of $1000 is closest to:

• A)$754.
• B)$772.
• C)$776.
• D)$791.

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Definitions:

Habituation

Tendency of the brain to stop attending to constant, unchanging information.

Learned Helplessness

A condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness, arising from traumatic events or persistent failure to succeed. It is thought to be one of the underlying causes of depression.

Contingency Blocking

A phenomenon in classical conditioning where a subject learns to associate a particular stimulus with an outcome, blocking the learning of an association with a new stimulus presented at the same time.

Response Generalization

The process by which a learned response is applied to similar stimuli beyond the original conditioned stimulus.