Can someone please tell me if I am defining operant conditioning correctly:

Question

Operant conditioning is a process of increasing or decreasing a specific behavior through reinforcement (positive or negative), punishment or extinction. The person operates based on the environment through learned discriminative stimulus.

Answer 1

The orriginal question:
Define operant conditioning and discuss how this method works to increase desired behavior.

Answer 2

If behavior is rewarded after it is done, that behavior is likely to be repeated. Punishment leads to a temporary suppression of the behavior, while nonreward (neither reward nor punishment) follows the behavior, it will go to extinction.

This article might help a little more.

http://www.members.cox.net/dagershaw/lol/Tantrums.htm

Answer 3

Thank you