Define operant conditioning. Who was the pioneerresearcher who studied operant conditioning and generally how wasit done? How is operant conditioning adaptive to an animal? Whatis/are the characteristic(s) of an animal species that uses operantconditioning versus a species that doesn’t use operantconditioning? For animals that use operant conditioning, discussthe restrictions on an animal’s ability to associate its behaviorwith either good or bad consequences. Why do these restrictionsexist?