W. S. Small

Psychologist, Deceased Person

1870 – 1943

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Who was W. S. Small?

Willard Stanton Small was an experimental psychologist. Small was the first person to use the behavior of rats in mazes as a measure of learning. 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. 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.

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Born
Aug 24, 1870
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1943

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on July 23, 2013

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