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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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Contiguity and contingency in the acquisition and maintenance of an operant

TL;DR: It was concluded that this relationship was necessary for acquisition, but that response-reinforcer contiguity may be sufficient for maintenance, consistent with the view that operant conditioning is acontiguity-based process, butthat contingencies are required to produce reliable contiguit between reinforcers and particular responses.
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The effects of pipradrol on the acquisition of responding with conditioned reinforcement: A role for sensory preconditioning

TL;DR: It was concluded that pipradrol enhanced acquisition of responding with conditioned reinforcement even if the conditioned reinforcing stimulus was established with sensory preconditioning procedures.
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Construction and validation of an Animal-Human Continuity Scale

TL;DR: A 12-item Animal-Human Continuity Scale with a Likert-type 7-option format was constructed to measure the extent to which the respondent views humans and animals in a dichotomous fashion vs. on a continuum as mentioned in this paper.
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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.