Kenneth Wartinbee Spence

Kenneth Wartinbee Spence (born May 6, 1907, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died January 12, 1967, Austin, Texas) was an American psychologist who attempted to construct a comprehensive theory of behaviour to encompass conditioning and other simple forms of learning and behaviour modification. Spence was raised and educated in Canada, returning to the United States in 1930 to study at Yale University, where he received his doctorate three years later with Clark L. Hull. He began his behavioral...