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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 nature and measurement of meaning.

TL;DR: The relation of the intensity of a need to the amount of perceptual distortion is compared to a preliminary report on "Emotionality and perceptual defense."
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Hippocampal sharp wave‐ripple: A cognitive biomarker for episodic memory and planning

TL;DR: Alteration of the physiological mechanisms supporting SPW‐Rs leads to their pathological conversion, “p‐ripples,” which are a marker of epileptogenic tissue and can be observed in rodent models of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's Disease.
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Teaching Courses Online: A Review of the Research

TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review summarizes research on online teaching and learning is organized into four topics: course environment, learners' outcomes, learners characteristics, and institutional and administrative factors.
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Personality as traits.

TL;DR: The personality traits in the right column and tick the traits that describe you are: Dependable, well-organized, responsible, conscientious, self-confident, honest, and self-control as mentioned in this paper.
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The "supersitition" experiment: A reexamination of its implications for the principles of adaptive behavior.

TL;DR: The proposed theoretical scheme represents a shift away from hypothetical "laws of learning" toward an interpretation of behavioral change in terms of interaction and competition among tendencies to action according to principles evolved in phylogeny.
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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.