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?

Answer:An operant response

Explanation:An operant response is a behavior which can be adjusted depending on the outcome that is received after that response, the probability of the response or behavior occuring again is dependent on whether the response was reinforced or punished. Reinforcement will increase the likelihood of the behavior happening again in the future and punishment will reduce it