In operant conditioning, ________
A) a neutral stimulus is paired with a conditioned stimulus that leads to a reflexive response
B) babies build expectations about stimulus events but do not influence the stimuli that occur
C) infants act, and stimuli that follow their behavior change the probability that the behavior will occur again
D) aftera baby’s nervous system makes the connection between two stimuli, the neutral stimulus produces the behavior
Answer: C
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