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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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The comparative psychology of fixed-interval responding: Some quantitative analyses ☆

TL;DR: It is suggested that different species probably did differ in their underlying timing capacity, as the amount of response generation resulting from nontiming processes would need to be implausibly large to reconcile all the obtained coefficients of variation with an underlying timing process of uniform senstivity.
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The sequential view: From rapidly fading stimulus traces to the organization of memory and the abstract concept of number.

TL;DR: There is a substantial body of data that can be explained by inter-trial mechanisms but not by intratrial mechanisms, and it is suggested that the inter- Trial mechanisms have greater explanatory potential than the currently more popular intr atrial mechanisms.
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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.