If You Want to Know the Present Value of a Future

question 197

Multiple Choice

If you want to know the present value of a future payment received in one year, what formula can you use?

• A)Present value equals future payment times the current market rate of interest.
• B)Present value equals future payment divided by one plus the rate of interest.
• C)Present value equals one plus the rate of interest in decimals divided by future payment.
• D)Present value equals future payments times one plus the rate of interest.

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Definitions:

Shaping

A method of training by which successive approximations toward a desired behavior are reinforced.

Withholding Reinforcement

is a behavioral strategy where a positive outcome or reward is not given, aiming to decrease or eliminate a certain behavior.

Extinction

In behavior psychology, the gradual disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.

Operant Conditioning

The technique of adjusting the intensity of an action by applying encouragements or deterrents.