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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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Learning and the Economics of Small Decisions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review experimental studies that examine the influence of economic incentives on behavioral and experimental economics, and clarify the relationship of the research reviewed here to classical research in behavioral and Experimental economics.
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The advent of equitation science.

TL;DR: Topics addressed by equitation science, an emerging discipline that combines learning theory, physics and ethology to examine the salience and efficacy of horse-training techniques, are how much rein tension is too much; how much contact is neutral; how contact can be measured; how discomfort can be measures; how pain can be measuring; and how learned helplessness manifests in horses.
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From recurrent choice to skill learning: a reinforcement-learning model.

TL;DR: The model was inspired by recent research in neurophysiological studies of the basal ganglia and provides an integrated explanation of recurrent choice behavior and skill learning.
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Conditioning of simultaneous and serial feature-positive discriminations

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the development of simultaneous and serial feature-positive discriminations in appetitive conditioning in rat subjects and suggested that performance in serial discriminations may also involve the acquisition of a conditional cue function to the feature.
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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.