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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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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) behaviour explained by dysfunctioning reinforcement and extinction processes.

TL;DR: It is argued that the ADHD Inattentive subtype may have heterogeneous origins and be qualitatively different from the ADHD Hyperactive/Impulsive subtype.
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Response acquisition with delayed reinforcement

TL;DR: Results revealed that neither training nor immediate reinforcement is necessary to establish new behavior, and the conditions that give rise to both the first and second response are discussed.
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Differential Effect of Reward and Punishment on Procedural Learning

TL;DR: It is shown that reward leads to enhancement of learning in human subjects, whereas punishment is associated only with improvement in motor performance, suggesting that reward and punishment engage separate motivational systems with distinctive behavioral effects and neural substrates.
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Analyzing the multiple functions of stereotypical behavior for students with autism: implications for assessment and treatment

TL;DR: The results suggest that the causes of stereotypy for students with autism are complex and that the presumed association between response topography and behavioral function may be less important than previously realized.
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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.