When growing up a child knows they did something wrong when their parents punish them. This is a basic example of operant conditioning. Operant conditioning is learning by which behavior is influenced by consequences. Growing up I learned many different rights and wrongs based on operant conditioning, including getting good grades. At the end of the first quarter of first grade, I came home with a report card showing that I got straight A’s and my mom told me that she was so proud of me. The next day when I came home sitting on the counter was this make your own garden kit that I had been asking for forever. Then a week later my grandparents gave me five dollars and told me that I deserved something extra for working hard in school. This was
