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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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Preclinical Determinants of Drug Choice under Concurrent Schedules of Drug Self-Administration

TL;DR: It is proposition that choice schedules are underutilized in investigating the reinforcing effects of drugs in assays of drug self-administration and potential future directions and unexplored scientific space for the use of drug choice procedures are concluded.
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Biological setting events for self-injury

TL;DR: A model suggests that the influence of several biological factors, including menses, otitis media, fatigue, allergies, and constipation, that may serve as setting events alter the functional properties of the antecedent stimuli that control self-injurious behavior, thereby strengthening the specific consequences that maintain the behavior.
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Free-operant acquisition with delayed reinforcement

TL;DR: The acquisition of free-operant lever pressing by hungry rats was investigated under a schedule in which the first lever press in each second programmed a reinforcer delivery after a fixed delay.
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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.