conscious vs operant

conscious

adj
  • Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing. 

  • Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active. 

  • Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about. 

  • Self-conscious, or aware of wrongdoing, feeling guilty. 

  • Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness. 

  • Known or felt personally, internally by a person. 

noun
  • The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness. 

operant

adj
  • That operates to produce an effect. 

noun
  • Any of a class of behaviors that produce consequences by operating (i.e., acting) upon the environment. 

  • An operative person or thing. 

How often have the words conscious and operant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )