Which One of These Examples Does NOT Meet the Strict

question 61

Multiple Choice

Which one of these examples does NOT meet the strict definition for a dividend?

• A) Steel Gen Company regularly distributes $0.05 to each shareholder for every share they own.
• B) Chalone Vineyards once offered their investors discounts on wine in proportion to the number of shares they owned.
• C) Sippy Downs, Ltd., which operates several horse racing tracks, including the location for the Deagon Derby, distributes two free general admission tickets to every investor who holds more than 100 shares in the company (as of 2013).
• D) Both b and c do not meet the definition for a dividend.

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of an extinguished response (in a weaker form) when an organism is exposed to the original conditioned stimulus following a rest period.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the process by which a conditioned response decreases in frequency and eventually disappears after the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus.

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that becomes associated with a significant stimulus.

Conditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that has been associated with a particular response through conditioning, leading to its ability to elicit that response on its own.