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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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Priming Effects With Drugs and Other Reinforcers

TL;DR: The priming effect of drugs has been studied in both laboratory animals and humans as discussed by the authors, and some of the learned or unlearned processes that underlie the effect have been examined.
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Individual variation in cognitive performance: developmental and evolutionary perspectives

TL;DR: It is shown that cognitive performance is influenced by age, sex, rearing conditions and previous experience, which limits the validity of comparative analyses unless developmental histories are taken into account, and complicate attempts to understand how cognitive traits are expressed and selected under natural conditions.
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Biofeedback and Visceral Learning

TL;DR: By emphasizing the measurement of and the production of changes in bodily processes, biofeedback is contributing to the applications to medicine of other behavioral techniques for relief from stress, such as transcendental meditation.
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Perspectives in Psychology: XXIV Control of Coverants, the Operants of the Mind

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the consequences of assuming that private events obey the same laws as public ones and show that knowledge of the topography of a response is not required to control its frequency, and that the differential probability hypothesis can be exploited to control reinforcement contingencies.
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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.