Six-year-old Warren watches as his grandmother puts freshly baked cookies into a jar. The jar sits on the first shelf in grandma
's cabinet, a height that Warren cannot yet reach. After his grandmother leaves the kitchen, Warren takes a chair, sets it in front of the counter, and climbs up to the cabinet to get a cookie. What is the operant in this example? *
Operant conditioning: In psychology, the term "operant conditioning is also denoted as "instrumental conditioning" which was given by a famous psychologist named B. F. Skinner and is denoted as a famous form of learning. It occurs through either punishment or reward for specific behavior. Fundamentally, through "operant conditioning" a specific connection is being made between a particular behavior and related consequence.
In the question above, the given statement represents the operant as "carrying the chair to the kitchen".
