Example and criticism of operant conditioning

An example of the everyday life of Operant Conditioning is, teaching a child to behave in a certain way by giving him/her a reward after he/she shows that particular behaviour. For instance, you want him/her to eat vegetables, thus, each time that he/she finish his/her vegetables, you give him/her a sweet.

Operant conditioning has been criticised because it does not take in account neither genetics nor cognitive factors nor social environment.

References
McLeod, S. (2015). B.F. Skinner | Operant Conditioning | Simply Psychology. [online] Simplypsychology.org. Available at: http://www.simplypsychology.org/operant-conditioning.html [Accessed 19 Nov. 2015].