Secondary Positive Reinforcers

Secondary Positive Reinforcers

Introduction

The paper under review is about the concept of Secondary Positive Reinforcers in educational psychology. For a clear understanding, role of reinforcers has been discussed briefly. Concept of Secondary Positive Reinforcers has been illustrated through examples in detail.

Discussion

In Psychology, Reinforcers have been categorized into two: Positive Reinforcers and Negative Reinforcers. Positive Reinforcers are further subdivided into Primary Positive Reinforcers and Secondary Positive Reinforcers. Let us go through the definitions of all these (Bruce & David, 2010).

A reinforcer is defined as any stimulus after which either some observable behavior is manifested or which enhances the possibility that the ...