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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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Knowledge of results and motor learning: a review and critical reappraisal.

TL;DR: A number of new relations emerge between KR and both learning and performance, and it is emphasized that it also acts as guidance, enhancing performance when it is present but degrading learning if it is given too frequently.
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How Advertising Works: What Do We Really Know?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review more than 250 journal articles and books to establish what is and should be known about how advertising affects the consumer, and deduce a taxonomy of models.
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On Looking into the Black Box: Prospects and Limits in the Search for Mental Models

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors place the arguments advanced in alternative points of view with regard to mental models are reviewed, and the spectrum of empirical evidence is combined to suggest a framework within which research on mental models can be viewed.
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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.