What is the difference between primary and secondary reinforcement?
What will be an ideal response?
Primary reinforcers (like food, water, sex, and pain reduction) are innately reinforcing and they typically fulfill a
biological need. Secondary reinforcers (like money) do not fulfill any biologically need directly. They must be
associated with primary reinforcers.
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a. ?neurotics b. ?positive psychology c. ?hippies d. ?everyday people e. ?All of the choices are correct.
Some early psychological theorists believed that all of human behaviour was learned; that is, our behaviour is much more determined by nurture than our nature. This view is MOST consistent with:
A) Plato's nativism. B) Gall's phrenology. C) Aristotle's philosophical empiricism. D) James's functionalism.
This question is: 1 2 3 4 very somewhat somewhat very difficult difficult easy easy This question illustrates a(n):
a. stratified format. b. open-ended format. c. Likert scale. d. within-subject format.
In the United States, __________ students are the most isolated group
A) black B) Hispanic C) white D) Asian