scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessBook

The Behavior of Organisms

B. F. Skinner
Reads0
Chats0
About
The article was published on 1938-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 3337 citations till now.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

A delayed reward strategy for large-scale motivation of safety belt use: a test of long term impact

TL;DR: In this article, an incentive program applicable for communitywide motivation of safety belt use was implemented at a large industrial complex, where the employees were informed via signs, posters, and newspaper articles that a winning license plate number would be randomly selected each day from among those vehicles exiting Gate 1 whose drivers were wearing shoulder belts.
Book ChapterDOI

Experimental Analysis of Hysterical Blindness

TL;DR: In this article, a rat, placed in a so-called Skinner box, will per-sist in pressing a bar if, as a consequence of this response, a pellet of food is delivered to it at least some of the time.
Book

Selected philosophical and methodological papers

Paul E. Meehl
TL;DR: In this article, C.Anderson and K.Gunderson present a thought-experiment on Professor Feigl's mind-body identity thesis on a distinction between hypothetical constructs and intervening variables, Kenneth MacCorquodale and Meehl psychopathology and some methodological reflections on the difficulties of psychoanalytic research subjectivity.
References
More filters
Book

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.
Book

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.