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The Behavior of Organisms
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A limitation of the contrafreeloading phenomenon
TL;DR: This paper showed that animals prefer working to freeloading when given free choice days of food and water as rewards, and that the preference for free water was even greater than that for free food.
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Representation of serial order : A comparative analysis of humans, monkeys, and pigeons
Damian Scarf,Michael Colombo +1 more
TL;DR: The extent to which the difference in performance between birds and primates on the serial-order task reflects a difference in cognitive abilities, or whether the difference can be attributed to noncognitive factors, is discussed.
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The Fun and Function of Uncertainty: Uncertain Incentives Reinforce Repetition Decisions
TL;DR: This article found that individuals repeat a behavior more if their incentive is uncertain than if it is certain, even when the certain incentive is financially better, and the effect holds in both lab and field settings.
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Resistance to extinction of a conditioned operant as related to drive level at reinforcement.
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Some historical and conceptual relations among logical positivism, operationism, and behaviorism.
TL;DR: Historical and conceptual relations among logical positivism, conventional operationism, and behaviorism are examined from the standpoint of Skinner’s radical behaviorism.
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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