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
e
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