The term "operant" is used for Thorndike's procedure because
a. the experimenter performs a kind of operation on the participant.
b. technical operations are part of the procedure.
c. the eliciting stimulus elicits or operates on the response.
d. the response operates on the environment to produce the eliciting stimulus.
e. the environment becomes an operator for behavior.
d. the response operates on the environment to produce the eliciting stimulus.
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a. True b. False