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The Behavior of Organisms
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Motivating Safety Belt Use with Incentives: A Critical Review of the Past and a Look to the Future
TL;DR: Initiative jouent un role principal dans l'effort classique a l'echelle de la nation entrepris pour accroitre l'utilisation reguliere des ceintures de securite aux USA.
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B. F. Skinner's legacy to human infant behavior and development.
TL;DR: In this paper, Skinner's legacy to human behavioral research for the study of environment-infant interactions, and indeed for the conception of development itself, is described and exemplified, largely the practicality, the efficiency, and the comparative advantage of using the operant-learning paradigm to organize and explain many of the sequential changes in behavior patterns conventionally thought to constitute infant development.
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The Differential Effects of Elaborate Feedback and Basic Feedback on Student Performance in a Modified, Personalized System of Instruction Course.
Jared A. Chase,Ramona Houmanfar +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of elaborate feedback and basic feedback on student performance were investigated in an introductory psychology course and the results showed that elaborate feedback was beneficial in general and particularly for questions that were determined to be difficult by item analyses.
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A Neuropsychological Theory of Anxiety
TL;DR: Gray as discussed by the authors argued that the two major components of anxiety are conditioned fear and conditioned or anticipatory frustration, and showed that these two phenomena can be viewed as separate states or as a single state (anxiety).
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Calculating contingencies in natural environments: issues in the application of sequential analysis
TL;DR: It is concluded that the conceptual distinctions among contiguity, contingency, and dependency are critical if the logic of sequential analysis is to be extended successfully to a behavior-analytic account of reinforcement in natural environments.
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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.
Milton J. Bass,Clark L. Hull +1 more