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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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Developmental theory and the practice of clinical child psychology.

TL;DR: It is concluded that there is a long way to go before a true developmental-clinical child interface has been realized, and developmental theory and its relevance for the practice of clinical child psychology are examined.
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The role of the murine motor cortex in action duration and order.

TL;DR: The results offer a first glimpse into the cortical substrates of instrumental differentiation in mice and show duration differentiation obeys Weber's law.
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Adjusting to changes in the time of reinforcement: peak-interval transitions in rats.

TL;DR: Analysis of individual peak times during a session showed that transitions from lower to higher reinforcement time values were usually characterized by abrupt jumps in peak time, whereas descending transitions were mostly smooth but rapid.
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Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy: A Method for Harnessing Neuroplasticity to Treat Motor Disorders

TL;DR: Human and animal studies using a variety of methods provide evidence that CI therapy produces marked neuroplastic changes in the structure and function of the CNS, which appear to be important for the intervention's therapeutic effect.
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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.