operant
Active and influential
Operant describes behavior that operates on the environment to produce consequences, central to the psychology of learning.
In operant conditioning, behaviors increase or decrease based on rewards and punishments that follow them.
A rat pressing a lever for food pellets demonstrates operant behavior.
The term contrasts with respondent behavior, which is reflexive rather than voluntary.
Adding support or encouragement
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
- shapingGiving something its form
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- consequenceResult of an action
contingency · schedule · response rate · behavior modification · token economy · positive reinforcement · negative reinforcement · acquisition
Done by choice
- emittedReleased or discharged outward
- learnedHaving much knowledge
- behaviorManner of conducting oneself
- actionProcess of doing
performance · activity · effect · outcome · rate · frequency · probability · strength
Behaviorist psychologist, conditioning researcher
- behavioral scienceStudy of human conduct
- Skinner boxBehavioral research enclosure
- contingenciesPossible future events
Working as intended
- effectiveProducing intended results
- workingIn active function
- producingMaking or generating
- instrumentalServing as means
causal · influential · dynamic · agentive
reinforcement
Adding support or encouragement
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
- shapingGiving something its form
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
consequence · contingency · schedule · response rate · behavior modification · token economy · positive reinforcement · negative reinforcement · acquisition · maintenance
voluntary
Done by choice
- emittedReleased or discharged outward
- learnedHaving much knowledge
- behaviorManner of conducting oneself
action · performance · activity · effect · outcome · rate · frequency · probability · strength · class
B.F. Skinner
Behaviorist psychologist, conditioning researcher
- behavioral scienceStudy of human conduct
- Skinner boxBehavioral research enclosure
- contingenciesPossible future events
functioning
Working as intended
instrumental · causal · influential · dynamic · agentive
- Conditioningconditioning, classical conditioning, reinforcement, stimulus, conditioned response
operantrespondent
One who gives answers
classical · Pavlovian · reflexive · unconditioned · involuntary
operantinoperative
Not able to function
ineffective · nonfunctional · inactive · inefficient · dormant
operantrespondent
One who gives answers
elicited · reflexive · reactive · passive · involuntary
- operating roomSurgical procedure venue
- base of operationsCentral location for activities
- operating systemsCore device management software
- train operatorsThose driving locomotives
- operating tableSurgical procedure surface
- cleanup operationsSystematic removal of debris
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