One example of operant conditioning happens in schools on a daily basis.
Operant conditioning is when an individual's response is followed by a reinforcement or punishment.
Children are given work to do and they have a choice to do it or not. Give one example of operant conditioning memory acquisition in an everyday-life human behavior. Joe gets up at 7am to get to work by 8am. He has a commute across the Wilson bridge and, needless to say, he is always late for work. When he is late, his boss yells at him, threatens to fire him, and gives him extra work to do.