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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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Stimulus control of defensive burying in the rat

TL;DR: This article found that rats buried the prod through which it had been shocked, even when the conditioning-test interval was 24 hours; whereas, each rat directed substantial amounts of bedding material at both prods when the positions of the two prods were reversed.
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Profile of drug effects on temporally spaced responding in rats.

TL;DR: These results may be valuable in classifying new compounds in drug screening programs as being of the amphetamine type, nicotine type, diazepam type of LSD-25 type.
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Educational Use of Computer Games: Where We Are, and What’s Next

TL;DR: This chapter discusses the current challenges of adopting games in education, and the areas worth further research effort so as to gain new insights into the future development of GBL.
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Pharmacological determinants of the reinforcing effects of psychostimulants: relation to agonist substitution treatment.

TL;DR: Evidence is presented to support the conclusion that affinity for dopamine transporters appears to be of critical importance, whereas serotonintransporters seem to serve a modulatory function, and that slow-onset, long-acting monoamine transporter ligands can be expected to have reinforcing effects and therefore abuse liability, which has implications for the use of these drugs as pharmacotherapies.
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Is fluency free-operant response-response chaining?

TL;DR: This article briefly reviews behavioral fluency and its 10 products, and makes several suggestions that fluent performing is really operant response-response (R-R) chaining, and recommends further controlled laboratory research on free-operant R-R chaining.
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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.