how does early operant conditioning strategies shape a person’s adult personality and if so, how
Responses consistent over time, places and persons are attributed to one's personality.
Consequences to an organism's responses are the key relationship in operant conditioning. Rewarded responses will continue or increase, nonrewarded responses will go to extinction.
http://drdavespsychologypage.homestead.com/Reinforcement__Controlling_Behavior.pdf
http://drdavespsychologypage.homestead.com/Reinforcement__Random.pdf