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delayed response

a response that occurs some time after its discriminative stimulus has been removed. The most common delayed response task for nonhuman animals is one in which the animal is required to recall the location of a reward after a delay period has elapsed.

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ontogeny

ontogeny

n. the biological origin and development of an individual organism from fertilization of the egg cell until death. Also called ontogenesis. Compare phylogeny. See also recapitulation theory. —ontogenetic adj.