W. S. Small

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 journal two of three in"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 Sanford at Clark University.[3]

  • Small, Willard S. (1901). "Experimental Study of the Mental Processes of the Rat. II". The American Journal of Psychology. University of Illinois Press. 12 (2): 206–39. doi:10.2307/1412534. ISSN 0002-9556. JSTOR 1412534 – via JSTOR. (Registration required (help)).

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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