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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 I3 Model. Metatheory, Theory, and Evidence.

TL;DR: The I 3 Model as discussed by the authors is a metatheory that suggests that all behavior emerges from a combination of three orthogonal processes, i.e., exposure to a particular target object in a particular context that normatively affords a certain behavior.
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A proposed architecture for the neural representation of spatial context

TL;DR: Recent experimental evidence that spatial context is population-coded is discussed, a property which could allow both discrimination between overlapping contexts and generalization across them, and thus provide a foundation for animals' capacity for flexible context-linked place learning.
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Neural Systems Involved in Fear Inhibition: Extinction and Conditioned Inhibition

TL;DR: Gelman as mentioned in this paper describes the memory of being shot in the head by a bolt of crackling thunder in the middle of the monsoon season at a Viet Nam guard post.
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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.