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Operant vs Respondent - What's the difference?

operant | respondent |

As a verb operant

is .

As a noun respondent is

(legal) person who answers for the defendant in a case before a court in some legal systems, when one appeals a criminal case, one names the original court as defendant, but the state is the respondent.

As an adjective respondent is

disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.

operant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That operates to produce an effect.
  • * Shakespeare
    • thy most operant poison
  • * 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 117:
    • I tell you frankly, if Paul Aubry is guilty I hope is convicted and punished; but if one of the others is guilty I hope he—or she—is punished, and if I knew anything operant to that end I certainly would not withhold it.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An operative person or thing.
  • (psychology) Any of a class of behaviors that produce consequences by operating (i.e., acting) upon the environment.

    • Derived terms

    * inoperant * operancy * operant conditioning

    Antonyms

    * inoperant

    See also

    * Skinner box

    Anagrams

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    respondent

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal) person who answers for the defendant in a case before a court. In some legal systems, when one appeals a criminal case, one names the original court as defendant, but the state is the respondent.
  • One who responds. See also correspondent.
  • Person that participates in research involving questionnaires.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Wealth respondent to payment and contributions.
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