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question 12

Multiple Choice

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Consider two firms, With and Without, that have identical assets that generate identical cash flows. Without is an all-equity firm, with one million shares outstanding that trade for a price of $24 per share. With has two million shares outstanding and $12 million in debt at an interest rate of 5%.
-Assume that MM's perfect capital markets conditions are met and that you can borrow and lend at the same 5% rate as With. You have $5 000 of your own money to invest and you plan on buying With shares. Using homemade (un) leverage you invest enough at the risk-free rate so that the payoff of your account will be the same as a $5 000 investment in Without shares. The number of shares of With you purchased is closest to:

• A)425
• B)100
• C)825
• D)1 650

Explain the process of extinction and spontaneous recovery in the context of conditioned responses.

Understand the concept of higher-order conditioning and its implications.

Recognize the limits of conditioning, including stimuli that cannot be effectively associated and optimal intervals for CS-UCS pairing.

Describe the phenomena of conditioned taste aversion and its unique characteristics.

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