W. S. Small

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Willard Stanton Small (August 24, 1870 – 1943) was an experimental psychologist. Small was the first person to use the behavior of rats in mazes as a measure of learning.[1] In 1900 and 1901, he published his two-part "Experimental Study of the Mental Processes of the Rat" in the American Journal of Psychology.[2] The maze he used in this study was an adaptation of the Hampton Court Maze, as suggested to him by Edmund Clark Sanford at Clark University.[3]

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Experimental Study of the Mental Processes of the Rat. II.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Street, W. R. (1994). A Chronology of Noteworthy Events in American Psychology - August 24 in Psychology. American Psychological Association. Retrieved on March 26, 2007.
  2. ^ Street, W. R. (1994). A Chronology of Noteworthy Events in American Psychology - March 11 in Psychology. American Psychological Association. Retrieved on March 26, 2007.
  3. ^ Wozniak, Robert H. (1997). Experimental and Comparative Roots of Early Behaviorism: An Introduction. Retrieved on March 26, 2007.
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