In operant conditioning, ________.

A. a neutral stimulus is paired with a conditioned stimulus that leads to a reflexive response
B. babies reduce or eliminate their learned expectations about the likely effects of stimulus events
C. infants act, and stimuli that follow their behavior change the probability that the behavior will occur again
D. after a baby's nervous system makes the connection between two stimuli, the neutral stimulus produces the behavior


Answer: C

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