Password for downloading apps

I'm a new Mac user. I'm trying to download several applications but my Apple ID password is not accepted. It is accepted for anything other than downloading apps. I understood that the same password (Apple ID) would work on downloads as well. I tried resetting the password but I'm not able to 'break the code'.
Thank you in advance.

I think you use a apple id to log into the app store to download stuff from there (I don't use the app store so I am assuming that fact). Generally you don't need any passwords to download from other places outside the app store. But no matter how you download the app, once downloaded, if it requires a password to install (didn't think anything from the app store would require that) then in all cases it is the admin password that is required.
If you didn't set up this machine and let a "genius" do it you need to contact him to find out what your admin password is.
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