What is "operant"

Usage examples of "operant".

Discovering just how much creatures with nervous systems of this degree of complexity can remember, and whether they can meet the rigorous criteria laid down by association psychologists as to behaviour to be counted as learning, classical or operant conditioning, becomes a matter of the ingenuity of the experimenter in designing appropriate, biologically relevant tasks.

I was also operant in redaction, which is the therapeutic and analytical power that most lay persons call mind-alteration.

Thus, as with classical conditioning, the setting exercises great control over our operant behavior.

Whereas in pavlovian - or, as it became known, classical - conditioning the experimental animals were the passive recipients of the unconditioned and conditioning stimuli which they had to learn to pair, the skinnerian approach was to put the animals into a situation where they had to do something positive, to act on their environment - to emit an operant.

The gold torcs are the basic article, the mental amplifiers that turn latents into operants.

From this and other types of experiment, it is beyond dispute that, even by the most rigid of the criteria used by mammalian psychologists, Drosophila show not merely habituation and sensitization but classical and operant conditioning based on visual, olfactory and even touch cues.

Now that the security of the Edinburgh Parapsychology Unit was compromised, there seemed little hope that they could continue on the cautious schedule of action championed by Denis Remillard and Tamara Sakhvadze and the other operant conservatives, who advocated delaying the public announce­ment of EE capability until there were at least a thousand adept prac­titioners scattered around the world.

On the face of it, you'll be a liberal Democrat championing the rights of operant metapsychics and other minorities.

On the one side were Denis and Jamie and Vigdis, championing nonaggression, and on the other side, insisting that operants must now defend themselves and their countries with mental as well as physical force, were Tamara and Zhen­yu and — the shame!

I have never experienced cosmic conscious­ness, never joined in a true coadunation of minds, never experienced even the least hint of those awesome precursors to Unity that the young operants of the modern, post-Re­bellion Human Polity yearn after and mind-whisper about.

This philosophy, to­gether with its correlate — that operant minds have an obligation to love and serve selflessly those minds who stand a step beneath on ev­olution's ladder — was never seriously challenged during the twenty years of Metapsychic Congresses preceding this one.

The operant leader gave a telepathic command and the test subject began to count steadily in declamatory farspeech.

Coming straight after Delphic Biosys-tems' elegant, assured spokespeople (teeth and skin by Masarini of Florence, sincerity by Operant Conditioning pie), it would be like being jolted out of a daydream by a kick in the head.

Iseman will be given a combination of reinforced operant conditioning and adversive conditioning,” Dr.

Iseman will be given a combination of reinforced operant conditioning and adversive conditioning," Dr.