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. [Street, W. R. (1994). [http://www.cwu.edu/~warren/calendar/cal0824.html A Chronology of Noteworthy Events in American Psychology - August 24 in Psychology] . American Psychological Association. Retrieved on March 26,2007.] In 1900 and 1901, he published his two-part "Experimental Study of the Mental Processes of the Rat" in the American Journal of Psychology. [Street, W. R. (1994). [http://www.cwu.edu/~warren/calendar/cal0311.html A Chronology of Noteworthy Events in American Psychology - March 11 in Psychology] . American Psychological Association. Retrieved on March 26,2007.] 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. [Wozniak, Robert H. (1997). [http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Psych/rwozniak/roots.html Experimental and Comparative Roots of Early Behaviorism: An Introduction] . Retrieved on March 26, 2007.]

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[http://www.jstor.org/view/00029556/ap050046/05a00050/0 Experimental Study of the Mental Processes of the Rat. II.]

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