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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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Age, experience and the changing brain

TL;DR: The effects of age, experience, sex, and injury on the cortex are described and some general conclusions are attempted to reach.
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Pain and behavior

TL;DR: Physiological, cognitive, and behavioral theories of pain each have their own view of the nature of the two kinds of pain this article, and each of them is no better at explaining the subjective experience of pain than is behavioral theory.
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Maturation of the human frontal lobes: Physiological evidence for staging

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the nonlinear dynamics of human cerebral maturation in terms of continuous versus discontinuous cognitive development and found that frontal regions exhibited different wave characteristics than posterior regions, similarly, left and right hemispheres exhibited differential developmental features.
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Observing and conditioned reinforcement

TL;DR: The maintenance of observing can be reconciled with the traditional theory that the acquisition of reinforcing properties proceeds according to the same rules as those for Pavlovian conditioning if it is recognized that the subject is selective in what it observes and procures a greater than proportionate exposure to the stimulus associated with the more desirable outcome.
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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.