How do infants between about 8-12 months achieve a specific goal?

a. They begin to acquire primary circular reactions.
b. They imitate the secondary circular actions of someone who has modeled them.
c. They coordinate two previously acquired secondary circular reactions.
d. They unintentionally realize that one primary circular action causes another one.


C

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