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operant

[ op-er-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. operating; operating; producing effects.


noun

  1. a person or thing that operates.

operant

/ ˈɒəəԳ /

adjective

  1. producing effects; operating
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a person or thing that operates
  2. psychol any response by an organism that is not directly caused by a stimulus
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of operant1

1595–1605; < Late Latin operant- (stem of DZԲ, present participle of DZī; operate ); -ant
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Example Sentences

It knows how to use operant conditioning — the same techniques used to train a dog — to turn young men and women into efficient killers.

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Verbal and operant responses of young children to vocal versus instrumental song performances.

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Clive Wynne, founding director of the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University, ascribed the talking dogs’ skills to operant conditioning rather than an understanding of the words they seem to use.

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Even Devine says that she thinks Bunny’s “speech” is primarily operant conditioning, where Bunny has made an association between pressing a button and something happening.

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The Twittering Machine, as a wholly designed operant conditioning chamber, needs none of the expedients of the casino or opium den.

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