operant
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8.1
- adjective
- /ˈɒpərənt/
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operante
- The use of dog training in conjunction with classroom instruction on the operant learning process allows students like myself the opportunity to experience firsthand the concepts associated with the operant learning process.
- operant conditioning
- operant principle
- operant procedure
Examples
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The purpose of this study was to examine the operant nature of the teacher-student expectancy interaction on second graders' reading achievement.
Academic text (1993) -
My father believed in techniques which utilized the concept of operant conditioning-- rehabilitation through punishment.
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Both of these points of view have described this process from an operant perspective.
Academic text (1991) -
Thus the mechanisms controlling operant conditioning in the various species surely have new purposes as a purpose.
Academic text (2001) -
The examples provided thus far are relatively simple examples, but a creative instructor can model other, more sophisticated operant conditioning phenomena as well.
Academic text (2005) -
Punishment: Punishment, like reinforcement, is an important operant principle that is crucial for psychology of learning students to understand.
Academic text (2005) -
As described below, we feel that using students as trainers in animal shelters allows these students to learn the operant principles while performing them and directly observing their effects.
Academic text (2005) -
At the same time, Skinner (1938) was researching operant conditioning and training based on observable behaviors.
Academic text (2015) -
In 1957, noted behaviorist B. F. Skinner (1957) extended the concept of operant conditioning and rewarding positive behaviors to verbal behavior, meaning behavior is under the control of consequences mediated by other people.
Academic text (2014) -
The operant principles of behaviorism explain how actions can lead to specific outcomes.
Synonyms
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4.8
Working and able to produce an effect
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7.2
That makes something happen
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6.8
Able to produce the intended result
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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5.1
A way of learning where a behavior increases after reward or decreases after punishment
How Effective
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Operant comes from the Latin root oper- meaning 'work' or 'to do' and the ending -ant meaning 'doing', the same root you see in operate and operator. So, something operant is 'doing' or active and therefore produces an effect or influences a result.