Kenneth Spence
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American psychologist
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Kenneth Spence's Degrees
- PhD Psychology University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kenneth Wartinbee Spence was a prominent American psychologist known for both his theoretical and experimental contributions to learning theory and motivation. As one of the leading theorists of his time, Spence was the most cited psychologist in the 14 most influential psychology journals in the last six years of his life . A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Spence as the 62nd most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
Kenneth Spence's Published Works
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Published Works
- The differential response in animals to stimuli varying within a single dimension. (1937) (752)
- The nature of discrimination learning in animals. (1936) (720)
- CHAPTER 12 – The Motivational Components of Manifest Anxiety: Drive and Drive Stimuli1 (1966) (347)
- A theory of emotionally based drive (D) and its relation to performance in simple learning situations. (1958) (342)
- Anxiety and strength of the UCS as determiners of the amount of eyelid conditioning. (1951) (284)
- The relationship of anxiety level to performance in serial learning. (1952) (257)
- Experimental studies of learning and the higher mental processes in infra-human primates. (1937) (222)
- The role of secondary reinforcement in delayed reward learning. (1947) (215)
- The relation of anxiety (drive) level to performance in competitional and non-competitional paired-associates learning. (1956) (203)
- Complex learning and conditioning as a function of anxiety. (1953) (201)
- The nature of the response in discrimination learning. (1952) (196)
- Theoretical interpretations of learning. (1942) (152)
- Conditioning and extinction as a function of anxiety. (1953) (143)
- ANXIETY (DRIVE) LEVEL AND PERFORMANCE IN EYELID CONDITIONING. (1964) (142)
- Essays in neobehaviorism : a memorial volume to Kenneth W. Spence (1971) (141)
- Operationism and Theory in Psychology (1941) (131)
- Continuous versus non-continuous interpretations of discrimination learning. (1940) (130)
- The nature of theory construction in contemporary psychology. (1944) (120)
- A methodological study of the form and latency of eyelid responses in conditioning. (1959) (118)
- Learning and performance in eyelid conditioning as a function of intensity of the UCS. (1953) (114)
- Cognitive and drive factors in the extinction of the conditioned eye blink in human subjects. (1966) (111)
- The basis of solution by chimpanzees of the intermediate size problem. (1942) (106)
- Anxiety (drive) level and degree of competition in paired-associates learning. (1956) (102)
- The postulates and methods of behaviorism. (1948) (102)
- Cognitive versus stimulus-response theories of learning. (1950) (101)
- An experimental test of the sign-gestalt theory of trial and error learning. (1946) (95)
- The relation of conditioned response strength to anxiety in normal, neurotic, and psychotic subjects. (1953) (89)
- The logic of psychophysical measurement (1944) (77)
- Temporal effects of conditioned fear on the eyelid reflex. (1958) (67)
- Eyelid conditioning as a function of the inter-trial interval. (1950) (66)
- Effects of anxiety, stress, and task variables on reaction time. (1956) (65)
- The relation of electric shock and anxiety to level of performance in eyelid conditioning. (1954) (64)
- An experimental test of the continuity and non-continuity theories of discrimination learning. (1945) (64)
- Analysis of the formation of visual discrimination habits in chimpanzee. (1937) (63)
- The relation of anxiety to differential eyelid conditioning. (1954) (62)
- Differential conditioning and level of anxiety. (1954) (53)
- Sex and anxiety differences in eyelid conditioning. (1966) (50)
- Visual acuity and its relation to brightness in chimpanzee and man (1934) (47)
- A study of simple learning under irrelevant motivational-reward conditions. (1950) (47)
- UCS intensity and the associative (habit) strength of the eyelid CR. (1958) (46)
- "Correction" vs. "non-correction" method of trial-and-error learning in rats. (1938) (43)
- Conditioning level in the behavior disorders. (1954) (39)
- The order of eliminating blinds in maze learning by the rat. (1932) (38)
- EXTINCTION OF THE HUMAN EYELID CR AS A FUNCTION OF THE DISCRIMINABILITY OF THE CHANGE FROM ACQUISITION TO EXTINCTION. (1964) (37)
- UCS INTENSITY AND PERFORMANCE IN EYELID CONDITIONING. (1966) (35)
- Performance in differential conditioning as a function of variation in magnitude of reward. (1963) (34)
- Performance in differential conditioning and discrimination learning as a function of hunger and relative response frequency. (1959) (32)
- Observational learning of discrimination problems by chimpanzees. (1939) (31)
- Cognitive Factors in the Extinction of the Conditioned Eyelid Response in Humans (1963) (31)
- Intertrial reinforcement and the partial reinforcement effect as a function of number of training trials (1965) (31)
- Eyelid conditioning performance under partial reinforcement as a function of UCS intensity. (1960) (30)
- RELATION OF EYELID CONDITIONING TO MANIFEST ANXIETY, EXTRAVERSION, AND RIGIDITY. (1964) (28)
- Effects of intertrial reinforcement on resistance to extinction following extended training. (1965) (28)
- Extinction of the human eyelid CR as a function of presence or absence of the UCS during extinction. (1966) (27)
- Weight, growth and age in chimpanzee† (1937) (26)
- Gradual versus sudden solution of discrimination problems by chimpanzees. (1938) (25)
- EFFECT OF A NUMBER OF ACQUISITION TRIALS AND THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF THE UCS ON EXTINCTION OF THE EYELID CR. (1963) (23)
- THE EFFECTS OF OCCIPITAL LOBECTOMY ON VISION IN CHIMPANZEE (1936) (23)
- Performance in eyelid conditioning as a function of UCS duration. (1959) (21)
- Current Interpretations of Learning Data and Some Recent Developments in Stimulus-Response Theory. (1954) (20)
- Performance in eyelid conditioning related to changes in muscular tension and physiological measures of emotionality. (1959) (19)
- The factors determining the difficulty of blind alleys in maze learning by the white rat. (1934) (19)
- Mathematical formulations of learning phenomena. (1952) (18)
- The Roles of Reinforcement and Non-Reinforcement in Simple Learning. (1960) (18)
- Failure of Transposition in Size-Discrimination of Chimpanzees (1941) (18)
- Performance changes in eyelid conditioning as related to the motivational and reinforcing properties of the UCS. (1960) (17)
- The Empirical Basis and Theoretical Structure of Psychology (1957) (15)
- The relation of response latency and speed to the intervening variables and N in S-R theory. (1954) (15)
- Effects of partial reinforcement of acquisition and extinction of the conditioned eyeblink in a masking situation. (1967) (15)
- Differential conditioning and intensity of the UCS. (1958) (14)
- Eyelid conditioning performance as a function of emotion-producing instructions. (1961) (13)
- Intrasubject Conditioning as a Function of the Intensity of the Unconditioned Stimulus (1958) (13)
- Performance in eyelid conditioning as a function of reinforcement schedules and changes in them. (1961) (13)
- Conditioning performance of high- and low- anxious Ss in the absence of a warning signal. (1960) (13)
- Conceptional Models of Spatial and Non-Spatial Selective Learning. (1960) (11)
- Learning theory, personality theory, and clinical research : the Kentucky symposium (1954) (10)
- Differential eyelid conditioning under equated drive as a function of reinforcing UCS. (1963) (7)
- A Comparative Study of Groups of High and Low Intelligence in Learning a Maze (7)
- The effect of overlearning on rate of extinction of the eyelid CR (1964) (7)
- EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE ON THE RELATION BETWEEN PERFORMANCE LEVEL IN EYELID CONDITIONING AND ANXIETY (DRIVE) LEVEL (1957) (7)
- A reply to Dr. Razran on the transposition of response in discrimination experiments. (1939) (6)
- Mathematical theories of learning. (1953) (6)
- The speculations of Leeper with respect to the Iowa tests of the sign-gestalt theory of learning. (1948) (6)
- The r?le of final and sub-goals in distance discrimination by the white rat. (1942) (4)
- "The relationship of anxiety level to performance in serial learning": Erratum (1953) (3)
- Historical and modern conceptions of psychology. (1956) (2)
- Conditioning (habit growth) in the absence of CRs (1966) (2)
- MAIN AND INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF SEVERAL VARIABLES ON REACTION TIME - STUDIES OF INFLUENCE OF MOTIVATION ON PERFORMANCE IN LEARNING (1955) (1)
- The role of reinforcement in instrumental reward conditioning. (1956) (1)
- A FAILURE TO OBTAIN CONSISTENT UNCONDITIONED RESPONSES IN CLASSICAL FINGER WITHDRAWAL CONDITIONING (1961) (1)
- Note on the standard errors of the standard errors of estimate and measurement. (1931) (1)
- Individual differences in human eyelid conditioning (1965) (1)
- The role of motivation in conditioning. (1956) (1)
- Clark Leonard Hull, 1884-1952. (1952) (1)
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- Dynamics in psychology. (1941) (0)
- Selective learning and conditioning. (1956) (0)
- Wanted: Recordings of Plunket Greene Singing Stanford's Songs (1935) (0)
- DISCUSSION: PART VI (1961) (0)
- Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1977 (1973) (0)
- Intertrial interval and response-competition in discrete-trials lever-pressing. (1967) (0)
- Theoretical model based on conditioning curves. (1956) (0)
- Some applications of the theoretical model to complex learning. (1956) (0)
- AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF LEARNING ON THE AERIAL GUNNERY TRAINING DEVICE 3-A-2 (1947) (0)
- Acquisition curves of conditioning. (1956) (0)
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