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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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Analysis and meta-analysis of single-case designs: an introduction.

TL;DR: This special issue includes five articles that provide an overview of current work on single-case design statistics, including standardized mean difference statistics, multilevel models, Bayesian statistics, and generalized additive models.
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Level searching: A new assay of sexual motivation in the male rat

TL;DR: It is suggested that the analysis of the acquisition, maintenance, and extinction of level searching behavior might serve as a simple assay of sexual motivation in the male rat.
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Evaluation of the “Pipeline” for Development of Medications for Cocaine Use Disorder: A Review of Translational Preclinical, Human Laboratory, and Clinical Trial Research

TL;DR: There was good concordance between animal and human laboratory results when the former assessed chronic drug treatment, and several subject-related, procedural, and environmental factors that differ between the laboratory and clinical trial settings that help explain the disagreement for other drugs were revealed.
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The Avoidance Learning Problem

TL;DR: The first avoidance learning experiment outside the finger withdrawal tradition involved rats, which were trained in a shuttlebox with a brief l-second CS and different interstimulus intervals of 0, 10, 20, or 30 seconds.
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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.