Development has the same relation with maturity as stimulus has with ______.

In a verbal analogy, the missing term must reproduce the exact relationship shown by the first pair. In behavioural and developmental psychology, a stimulus is any event acting on an organism, and the response is the reaction it produces — the stimulus-response (S-R) unit is the basic building block of learning theory.

1. Development is a continuous process, and maturity is the state that process leads to, so the first pair shows a process leading to its natural outcome.

2. The second pair must follow the same pattern: stimulus is the triggering event, and the blank must name what it leads to.

3. In the S-R framework, a stimulus's direct outcome is termed a response — mirroring maturity's role for development.

4. Filling in response completes the analogy: development : maturity :: stimulus : response.

Reading the completed sentence back — “Development has the same relation with maturity as stimulus has with response” — confirms a consistent process-to-outcome structure on both sides, matching the S-R pairing standard in child-development pedagogy.