AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Primary reinforcers are biological. Food, drink, and pleasure are the principal examples of primary reinforcers. But, most human reinforcers are secondary, or conditioned. Examples include money, grades in schools, and tokens.

Detailed explanation-2: -Money, as previously mentioned, is an example of a secondary reinforcer, which acquires its reinforcing properties through its association with primary reinforcers (i.e. money can be used to acquire food).

Detailed explanation-3: -A Primary Reinforcer is a stimulus that is biologically important to an organism, such as food, water, sleep, shelter, safety, pleasure, and sex.

Detailed explanation-4: -Water, food, sleep, shelter, sex, and touch, among others, are primary reinforcers . Pleasure is also a primary reinforcer. Organisms do not lose their drive for these things.

Detailed explanation-5: -Money is NOT a primary reinforcer because: it does not satisfy a biological need. If you trained a rat to fear a flashing light by pairing it with a painful electric shock, what would be the conditioned stimulus?