Two years ago, the de Castellane Manufacturing Company included its employees in a profit-sharing plan in which workers receive semiannual bonuses based on the company's profits. Since this plan was initiated, worker productivity at de Castellane has nearly doubled. This productivity increase is best explained in terms of:_________. a) latent learning. b) operant conditioning. c) classical conditioning. d) spontaneous recovery.

In psychology, the term operant conditioning is also referred to as "instrumental conditioning", and is described as one of the different learning methods that generally occurs via punishments and rewards in regards to specific behaviors. Because of this conditioning process, an association or connection is being made between a particular behavior and related consequence of the given behavior.

In the question above, this productivity increases in terms of operant conditioning.