When neither reward is imminent, before the discount curves cross, the agent consistently prefers the larger later reward over the smaller earlier reward.
As long as upcoming data continue to show inflation at tame levels, Collins is confident that the end of Federal Reserve rate hikes is imminent and that stocks will reward investors in 2006.
The most widely-adopted probes of human incentive-motivational neurocircuitry are variants of the monetary incentive delay (MID) task (Figure 1), wherein learned cues that signal an imminent opportunity to respond for monetary rewards reliably recruit the VS in proportion to potential reward magnitude [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19].
This is because of the process called "temporal discounting" which says we are more likely to go for a reward which is more imminent than for one which is far in the future.
A peach seed will grow into a flowering peach tree in about 3 to 6 years; if you buy a peach tree at the nursery, aim for one about a year old – and the reward will be much more imminent.
Its reward is an unexpectedly potent negotiating tool in its imminent funding discussions with Edinburgh city council.
A good-looking boy who likes her is rewarded with a brief relationship, but he is merely John the Baptist to the imminent Christ: Emma, played by Séydoux, a twentysomething art student.
For example, the chimpanzees tested by Povinelli et al. (2000, p. 268f) failed in transfer tasks where the reward was surrounded, but not supported by the cloth and thus may have relied on "current or imminent contact" for their choices, though this finding was not replicated in a later study with enculturated chimpanzees (Yocom and Boysen 2011).
Labour mobility is imminent.
Eviction appears imminent.
