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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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Reductions in resistance to extinction and spontaneous recovery as a function of changes in transportational and contextual stimuli

TL;DR: Changes in either transportational or contextual stimuli reduced resistance to extinction and spontaneous recovery, and substantial increments in responding occurred upon reinstatement of the transportational and contextual stimuli associated with baseline training.
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Simulation modelling analysis for small sets of single-subject data collected over time.

TL;DR: Simulation modelling analysis (SMA) is a relatively new technique that appears to offer acceptable Type-I and Type-II error rate control with short streams of autocorrelated data, however, at this point, it is probably too early to endorse any specific statistical approaches for short, autOCorrelated time-series data streams.
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The modification of occupational safety behavior

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use reinforcement, stimulus control and punishment in an optimal mix to modify complex skills, or resistant habits, by breaking the safe performance into small parts and heavily reinforcing improvements in previously incorrect components or by using chaining or shaping.
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Operant conditioning of autogrooming in vervet monkeys: Cercopithecus aethiops

TL;DR: How reinforcement principles can account for changes in the topography of operant behavior is suggested, and the form of conditioned autogrooming resembled theform of unconditioned autog rooming.
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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.