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The Behavior of Organisms
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Associative Learning: The Instructive Function of Biogenic Amines
TL;DR: It is shown that, besides a role in motivational modulation, biogenic amines substitute the reinforcer function in associative learning, thus instructing the nervous system about the relevance of external events.
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Evaluating the validity of functional behavior assessment
TL;DR: In this article, a brief overview of functional behavior assessment and contrasts and compares functional behaviour assessment and traditional psychological assessment is provided. But the comparison between the two approaches is not discussed.
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Reinforcing stimulus properties of drugs
TL;DR: It is suggested that addictive drugs may mimic the action of endogenous substances which are implicated in the physiological mechanisms underlying reinforcement and derangements in neuropeptide systems may be critical factors in the development of addictive behaviour.
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Rule-Governed Behavior in Behavior Analysis
TL;DR: The field of behavior analysis, which has been committed to a basic science of human behavior, has never had an easy time of it as discussed by the authors, and it has been argued that the rich workings of mental life stand in the way of a science attempting to explain all human behavior in terms of physical laws.
Developmental neuroscience of time and number: implications for autism and other neurodevelopmental
TL;DR: A review of the development of time and number sense across infancy and childhood, and neuropsychological findings as they relate to time and counting discrimination in infants and adults is presented in this article, couched within a mode-control model of timing and counting which assumes time and numbers share a common magnitude representation system.
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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.
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The irradiation of a tactile conditioned reflex in man.
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