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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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Studien zum autoritären Charakter

TL;DR: Weinland et al. as discussed by the authors identifiziert Max Weber drei Standorte: den Schaffenden, das Werk, den Rezipierenden.
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Robotic clicker training

TL;DR: It is argued that this new method for teaching complex actions to an animal-like autonomous robot based on clicker training can be a promising technique for teaching unusual behavior and sequences of actions to a pet robot.
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Is adjunctive behavior a third class of behavior

TL;DR: It is recommended that given the growing difficulties in maintaining an operant-respondent dichotomy, rather than admitting adjunctive behavior into either of these categories, research efforts should de-emphasize preconceived and outdated notions about categories of behavior and how such behaviors should behave and instead focus on mapping functional relationships between behavior and various procedures for presenting non-contingent stimuli.
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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.