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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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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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Time, rate, and conditioning.

TL;DR: The authors draw together and develop previous timing models for a broad range of conditioning phenomena to reveal their common conceptual foundations: first, conditioning depends on the learning of the temporal intervals between events and the reciprocals of these intervals, the rates of event occurrence.
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Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy: a new family of techniques with broad application to physical rehabilitation--a clinical review.

TL;DR: The CI Therapy approach has been used successfully to date for the upper limb of patients with Chronic and subacute CVA and patients with chronic traumatic brain injury and for the lower limb of Patients with CVA, incomplete spinal cord injury, and fractured hip and has recently been extended to focal hand dystonia of musicians and possibly phantom limb pain.
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The role of the dorsomedial striatum in instrumental conditioning.

TL;DR: This article examined the role of the dorsomedial striatum (DMS) in action-outcome learning after excitotoxic lesions and reversible, muscimol-induced inactivation.
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The Behavior of Organisms

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the scientific utility of the term & #x2018;organism within the domain of behavior analysis and discuss some possible reasons for its widespread use.
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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.