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reflex reserve

a repertoire of responses that are implanted and accumulate within an organism through reinforcement but are emitted only after reinforcement is withdrawn and extinction takes place. [proposed in 1938 by B. F. Skinner]

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lateralized readiness potential (LRP)

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