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The Behavior of Organisms

B. F. Skinner
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The article was published on 1938-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 3337 citations till now.

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Finding the Balance between Process and Product through Perceptual Lesson Planning.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide theoretical grounding for perceptual lesson planning, analytically examine the two current, dominant approaches to creating lesson plans, and put forward ideas that undergird a fresh approach to creating and analyzing lesson planning.
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Ethological and Comparative Perspectives on Honey Bee Learning

TL;DR: It is argued that the terminology and results from each perspective are complementary and are useful together in analyzing invertebrate learning.
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Dynamics of time matching: Arousal makes better seem worse.

TL;DR: A SET account of these results is presented which implicates two processes in time allocation: the choice between alternatives based on memory for delays to reinforcement, and the times at which such choices are made.
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The Mentality of Apes

TL;DR: Koehler's analysis of the intelligence of higher primates marked a turning point in the psychology of thinking and the continuing struggle between behaviorism and cognitive psychology as discussed by the authors, but it was largely ignored for decades because it violated the conventional wisdom that animal behavior is simply the result of instinct or conditioning.
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Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist

TL;DR: Wozniak as mentioned in this paper describes the early elaboration of the theory of reflex, habit, and implicit response in the early stages of the development of the early development of behaviourism.