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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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A Conditioning Analysis of Infant Long-Term Memory.

TL;DR: Although both retention measures indicated a significant memory deficit in the group tested after 336 hours (2 weeks), some individuals continued to exhibit substantial recall and savings after this retention interval.
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Force emission during bar pressing.

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed description of the emission of forces by rats in a substantially conventional Skinner box as the animals proceeded through various stages of the learning process (specifically, operant level determinations, regular reinforcement, and extinction) without any experimentermanipulated exteroceptive discriminative stimuli.
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The nature and function of interoceptive signals to feed: Toward integration of physiological and learning perspectives.

TL;DR: A research strategy is described that confirms that food deprivation states produce salient interoceptive stimuli in rats and implications for the physiological origins of energy state signals, the brain structures involved with processing energy state information, and the manner in which signals of energy need influence feeding were considered.
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Internal Models and Anticipations in Adaptive Learning Systems

TL;DR: This chapter first provides psychological background that motivates and inspires the study of anticipations in the adaptive behavior field, and a basic framework for the study in adaptive behavior is suggested.
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Factors Affecting Behavior Maintained by Response-Contingent Intravenous Infusions of Amphetamine in Squirrel Monkeys

TL;DR: Behavior developed and maintained in previously untrained monkeys by a modified progressive-ratio schedule of response-contingent intravenous infusions of d-amphetamine is described, and responding is reduced immediately to a low rate.
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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.