The Practice of Preparing Budgets for Each of Several Future

question 47

Multiple Choice

The practice of preparing budgets for each of several future periods and revising those budgets as each period is completed, adding a new budget each period so that the budgets always cover the same number of future periods, is called:

• A) Participatory budgeting.
• B) Capital budgeting.
• C) Balanced budgeting.
• D) Continuous budgeting.
• E) Primary budgeting.

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Definitions:

Continuous Reinforcement

A learning schedule in which every correct response is followed by a reward, facilitating rapid acquisition of a new behavior.

Ratio Reinforcement

A type of operant conditioning reinforcement schedule in which a response is reinforced only after a specified number of responses have occurred.

Interval Reinforcement

A type of operant conditioning scheduling wherein rewards are given to an organism at variable time intervals to encourage behavior.

Partial Reinforcement

A conditioning schedule in which a behavior is reinforced only some of the time, making the behavior more resistant to extinction.