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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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The Behavior-Analytic Origins of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy: An Example of Behavioral Neurorehabilitation

TL;DR: The intervention has been used successfully to substantially improve motor deficits after stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, with cerebral palsy in a pediatric population, and for language impairment in poststroke aphasia.
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Opportunistic control of action in intelligent agents

TL;DR: A 2D space of control modes is characterized, each of which maximizes the quality of run-time behavior in the corresponding region of a 2Dspace of control situations.
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A science of meaning: Can behaviorism bring meaning to psychological science?

TL;DR: An argument is presented for making meaning a central dependent variable in psychological science and a call for a more interdisciplinary science of psychology, focusing on the individual in society.
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Emergence of mind in robots for human interface - research methodology and robot model

TL;DR: A system chart expressing the human brain information processing and the development of an autonomous mobile robot "WAMOEBA-IR" (Waseda artificial mind on emotion base) that has the sense of values about colors and sounds based on self-preservation as the first step of the emergence of mind.
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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.