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The Behavior of Organisms
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Behavioral momentum and the partial reinforcement effect
TL;DR: The authors analyse des contradictions entre la resistance au changement en fonction du taux de renforcement and l'effet de plus grande resistance a l'extinction d'un comportement instrumental partiellement renforce.
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The operational analysis of psychological terms
TL;DR: In this article, the treatment of verbal behavior in terms of such functional relations between verbal responses and stimuli provides a radical behaviorist alternative to the operationism of methodological behaviorists, and it is shown how verbal responses to private stimuli can arise as social products through the contingencies of reinforcement arranged by verbal communities.
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Preliminary report on the application of contingent reinforcement procedures (token economy) on a "chronic" psychiatric ward.
John M. Atthowe,Leonard Krasner +1 more
TL;DR: An 86-bed closed ward in a Veterans Administration hospital was used in a 2-yr study involving the application of a "token economy" and indicated a significant increase in the performance of reinforced "desirable" behaviors and a general improvement in patient initiative, responsibility, and social interaction.
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Individual variation in spontaneous problem-solving performance among wild great tits
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted standardized assays on a natural population of great tits, Parus major, to quantify and characterize individual variation in problem-solving performance, a simple cognitive trait often linked to innovative foraging ability.
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Operant Theory and Research on Self-Regulation
TL;DR: In this article, a discussion of what self-control advocates mean when they speak of self-regulation can be found in the context of the relationship between a pilot and his airplane, where the pilot is the self who performs some operation from within to direct or control the plane's course or behavior.
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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