Question

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? *

Answer 1

The operant in this example is the behavior of Warren climbing up the chair to reach the cookies.

Step-by-step explanation:

The operant in this example is the behavior of Warren climbing up the chair to reach the cookies. Operant conditioning focuses on the association between a behavior and its consequences. In this case, Warren's behavior of climbing the chair is reinforced by the reward of getting a cookie.

Answer 2

carrying the chair to the kitchen

Explanation:

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".