operant in English

adjective
1
involving the modification of behavior by the reinforcing or inhibiting effect of its own consequences (instrumental conditioning).
Although its influence on the behavior modification procedures relatable to operant formulations has been negligible, Skinner has attempted to define the term.
noun
1
an item of behavior that is initially spontaneous, rather than a response to a prior stimulus, but whose consequences may reinforce or inhibit recurrence of that behavior.
A simple answer is that the verbal behaviors of a patient or subject do not cease to be operants , governed by all the variables involved in operant behavior, when the person becomes a patient or an experimental subject.

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1. We even see operant conditioning in some extraordinary situations.

2. Biofeedback refers to the operant training of physiological responding

3. Constructional Aggression Treatment is a technique based on the science of operant conditioning

4. Antonyms for Counterproductive include effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, expedient, operant, ultraefficient, prudent, practical and judicious

5. 14 Associative learning, which includes both classical and operant conditioning and emphasises mechanical connections or associations between events.

6. One group of scientists showed the power of operant conditioning by teaching pigeons to be art connoisseurs.

7. The Autoshaping, operant, and classical groups reached high response levels by the end of initial training

8. This entry describes the various traditions within the Behavioral perspective (classical conditioning, operant conditioning, cognitively mediated Behavioral theory, and …

9. Many early studies of non-human economic reasoning were performed on rats and pigeons in an operant conditioning chamber.

10. Although personality and social factors may make people likely to smoke, the actual habit is a function of operant conditioning.

11. 1 Pretreatment doses of Barbitone, pentoBarbitone, ethanol, and phenytoin (diphenylhydantoin) in non-tolerant rats produced increases in operant responding at low doses and at higher doses resulted in decreases in responding.

12. SCIENTISTS ARE LEARNING TO READ—AND CHANGE—YOUR NIGHTMARES JEFFREY KLUGER AUGUST 6, 2020 TIME In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked Childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.

13. Appetitive sessions were conducted in operant conditioning chambers (15 cm W x 13 cm D x 18 cm H, Med Associates Inc.) contained within sound-attenuating cubicles with the exception of the lickometer assay

14. Although bare-boned Associationism provides a good approximation of Hume and Pavlov, it doesn’t quite capture the full theory of those working in operant conditioning paradigms for it doesn’t involve any notion of reinforcement, or updating one’s associative structure based on consequences.

15. The pigeons are then placed in an operant conditioning chamber and through orienting and exploring the environment of the chamber they discover that by pecking a small disk located on one side of the chamber, food is delivered to them.