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The Behavior of Organisms
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Positive reinforcement and behavioral deficits of autistic children.
TL;DR: This paper analyzes how the basic variables determining the child’s behavior might operate to produce the particular kinds of behavioral deficits seen in the autistic child, and investigates the effect of intermittent reinforcement.
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Dopamine, affordance and active inference.
Karl J. Friston,Tamara Shiner,Thomas H. B. FitzGerald,Joseph M. Galea,Rick A. Adams,Harriet R. Brown,Raymond J. Dolan,Rosalyn J. Moran,Klaas E. Stephan,Sven Bestmann +9 more
TL;DR: This paper focuses on the consequences of changing tonic levels of dopamine firing using simulations of cued sequential movements and uses these simulations to demonstrate how a single functional role for dopamine at the synaptic level can manifest in different ways at the behavioural level.
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The automatic activation of goal-directed behaviour: the case of travel habit
Hag Henk Aarts,Ap Dijksterhuis +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the automaticity in habitual travel mode choice behavior and found that when travel behavior is habitual, activation of a travel goal automatically activates a travel mode in memory.
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Rewards teach visual selective attention.
TL;DR: Overall this emerging literature demonstrates unequivocally that rewards "teach" visual selective attention so that processing resources will be allocated to objects, features and locations which are likely to optimize the organism's interaction with the surrounding environment and maximize positive outcome.
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The relationship between adults' behavior and child coping and distress during BMA/LP procedures: A sequential analysis.
Ronald L. Blount,Susan M. Corbin,James W. Sturges,Vicky V. Wolfe,James M. Prater,L. Denise James +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of the immediate social environment on the child's ability to cope during painful medical procedures was examined using the Child- Adult Medical Procedure Interaction Scale (CAMPIS).
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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