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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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Reinforcement as input: cyclic variable-interval schedule.

TL;DR: Investigation of animals' response to cyclic schedules of different frequencies suggests links with engineering methods of frequency analysis.
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The body of knowledge: On the role of the living body in grounding embodied cognition

TL;DR: It is argued that modeling organisms as layered networks of bodily self-regulation mechanisms can make significant contributions to the authors' scientific understanding of embodied cognition.
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A behavioral diagnostic paradigm for integrating behavior-analytic and psychopharmacological interventions for people with a dual diagnosis.

TL;DR: A paradigm for integrating behavior-analytic and psychopharmacological treatment interventions in the treatment of persons with developmental disabilities that meets applicable standards is presented and is consistent with the least restrictive, yet effective treatment philosophy.
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The Operant-Respondent Distinction Revisited: Toward An Understanding Of Stimulus Equivalence

TL;DR: The distinction between operant and respondent behavior classes has received considerable attention throughout the history of behavior analysis as mentioned in this paper, and it is suggested that the failure of behavior analysts to recognize the ever-present role of respondent relations in operant conditioning experiments may be impeding the formulation of an effective explanation for stimulus equivalence, which has been investigated primarily as an operant phenomenon.
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Transfer after Serial Feature Positive Discrimination Training

TL;DR: Data from three experiments with rat subjects are consistent with claims that, in this conditioning preparation, serial feature-positive discrimination training endows X with the ability to signal the occurrence of an upcoming relation between a specific CS and the US.
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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.