Graduate Student Charisse Goldberg Conducted Operant Conditioning Trials with a Laboratory

Multiple Choice

Graduate student Charisse Goldberg conducted operant conditioning trials with a laboratory rat. Goldberg trained the animal to press a lever to earn a food pellet. The rat successfully learned to press the lever. In the language of operant conditioning, what is the animal's learned response called?

A) a higher-order conditioned response
B) a vicariously learned response
C) a reconditioned response
D) a latent response
E) an operant response